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.
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"The technical support is good."
"The storage on offer is excellent."
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"The valuable features of Microsoft Azure are that it is cloud-based and has good storage. The storage is completely managed by Azure. We do not need to do any patching of security because it is handled by Azure which is a benefit. The solution is fully compatible with the Microsoft technology stack and is very scalable."
"Easy to deploy services"
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"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."
"Provisioning a server is fast, taking only one or two minutes before it is ready."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"Amazon support could be better."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see the console improved."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
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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