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 initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"We find Azure particularly beneficial when working with clients who are heavily invested in Microsoft solutions. It necessitates that we also leverage Azure for our solutions and services."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"The pricing is something you have to watch. You really have to constantly optimize your costs for instances and things like that. That can become a job in itself to manage just from a budgeting standpoint."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"I would like to see more advanced functionality in terms of information security."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
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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