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.
"We have many projects where we can resolve a lot of issues with Amazon AWS. It has given customers a lot of visibility with their data. Many customers do not know what they can learn from their data and I provide them with this using useful information using Amazon AWS."
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"It integrates well."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"The integration with Databricks is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"SQL Server has been most beneficial for our client’s workload."
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"The interface could be improved."
"I'm not an expert on the product, but if I had to suggest one improvement, I know a feature that would allow a person to backup his on-premise solution to the cloud directly with one click would be useful. This solution should be agnostic because sometimes a product that was backed up with Veeam is highly compatible with Commvault. I think it would be better if these backup features were agnostic. Viewing a build could also be improved. It's not easy to follow up on your consumption and see how much you're paying and how much you will be paying. Viewing the build could be more clear."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"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."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"Ease of use could be improved."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"The installation process is complex."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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