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 most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"It was very user-friendly when setting up the virtual machines and console. It was an easy task for my team to create virtual servers and start replications."
"The technical support has been good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"With the Azure solution, you can get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are. It depends on your level of familiarity with the cloud you are using or with your computing. Azure helps you with every stage of the cloud."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"The availability could be better."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"One of the issues I'm facing is that my RDS SQL Server version 5.8 is reaching its end of life, and I need to upgrade it to a customer-wanted version. I want to do this on Graviton instances, but Graviton only starts with version 8.0 and currently doesn't support the 5.8 series. We've raised a Priority Feature Request (PFR) with AWS to have this functionality added for at least three months. This would give us enough time to upgrade our database to the 8.0 version without any issues."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"Maybe Azure could add an address code to create your analysis without SQL or Python because some business users don't want it to code. So it's good to have a service application that connects to the data lake to conduct analysis and simplify the business process."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
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.
See our list of best Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) vendors and best PaaS Clouds vendors.
We monitor all Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.