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.
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"It scales extremely well."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"AWS has large community support."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"It is easy to use."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"We use Microsoft Server 2019 and 2016. And I didn't like the 2019 client, so we had to downgrade back to 2016. The main issue there was its monitoring system. Our client needed an alternative, and if they were using more Windows products, they also needed to make that downgrade."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
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 298 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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