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 features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"It scales extremely well."
"The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"With the Azure solution, you can get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are. It depends on your level of familiarity with the cloud you are using or with your computing. Azure helps you with every stage of the cloud."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual machine."
"It was very user-friendly when setting up the virtual machines and console. It was an easy task for my team to create virtual servers and start replications."
"SQL Server has been most beneficial for our client’s workload."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"There needs to be better data security. There are organizations that do not want their data to be submitted to Microsoft, they should have strong encryption."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"The installation process is complex."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
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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