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.
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"Great scalability."
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"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."
"The documentation is very good."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"One feature I like in Microsoft Azure is its ability to host and run applications on virtual machines. It is a basic yet crucial capability for our team."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"Data analytics is one of the efficient features as well."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"The price needs improvement."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"AWS support could be better."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"There is room for improvement in cost. Everyone complains about AWS being expensive. The initial cost starts small but can skyrocket unexpectedly."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"They can improve the number of requests. Maybe they can increase it from 5,000 requests to 10,000 requests a month. Sometimes when you try to connect, it is quite unresponsive. When you want to communicate using the API, you get an internal error."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
"There is a need to be better on-premise solutions that are more helpful. However, I don't think that is the goal of Microsoft Azure. They want the solution to be secure cloud solutions with cloud applications. This is their main goal at the moment."
"A problem with Azure is that the architecture that they have is not really compliant — not really connecting with the endpoint Cloud."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"It could be more flexible. If you look at all Mircosoft products, they are not up to the mark. For example, Azure Ready doesn't provide the same kind of access a domain administrator has and the kind of flexibility that they have when using Active Directory. Microsoft support could be better. Their service could also be better. For example, specific policies for templates suddenly become unavailable. When I checked, they said that certain things might be withdrawn based on customer feedback. This happened once or twice, and it wasn't available at all for five days, it just went down."
"The support, the cost, the way they have the tiers, this could all be improved."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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