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 solution can scale well."
"They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"Amazon has a much better understanding of the workflow of data scientists and machine learning processes. This is seen by their SageMaker which offers different versions of the models to be used."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services."
"Great features at a good price."
"There are many useful features. We use web apps, so instead of starting a web server, we just have machines running some web services. This was helpful for us in terms of the scalability of the application. We also use Active Directory for authentication and some services for the data backup. It is a very good and reliable solution. It was easy to implement this solution. It fits very well into our plans and covers our needs to provide infrastructure in the cloud. The portal to configure new resources is very easy, and it is very easy to allocate new resources."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"Onboarding customers is a challenge. Sometimes our customers don't know how to deal with the cloud environment. Maybe the customers are more comfortable with the old-fashioned on-premise environment."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
"Performance could be improved."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
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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