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 offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"The technical support has been excellent."
"It is easy to deploy."
"Data analytics is one of the efficient features as well."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"It is a very straightforward solution that provides a wide range of services."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"We have a very good approach internally with what we have developed. It involved overcoming some hurdles regarding the single point of truth or single point of configuration, which is sometimes not that easy for AWS. There are dashboards and you have your web service, but bringing all these together and orchestrating is sometimes quite difficult."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"You eventually end up with a large collection of 'bits' all working together, I find it hard to be able to create a logical 'box' and put all the 'bits' that need to be in that box / application into the one place."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
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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