We compared Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, Azure is praised for its manageable setup, support, and documentation. It offers a wide range of features, an intuitive interface, and strong integration with other Microsoft solutions. However, it may be challenging for beginners and lacks user-friendliness in certain aspects. On the other hand, AWS provides quick deployment, extensive features, and strong integration capabilities. Users appreciate its scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, some users find AWS pricing to be high and suggest improvements in areas like user interface, security, and billing.
"It's a flexible solution."
"It improves the speed for us to access vendors."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"Cloud Management has been a valuable feature."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"The solution has enabled us to provide advanced indicators and analytics to the client on their data."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"I have found all the features to be good."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"The price could be better."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"One area where Microsoft Azure could improve is in offering a broader range of pre-built plugins and tools compared to AWS."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
"The security must be improved."
"Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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