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 storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
"The monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The experience with Amazon AWS is error-free. That was also, of course, something that I really appreciate. That means it's really well-tested and, as published or as declared."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"I have found all the features to be good."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"The tool's most valuable aspect is the account management side. This involves tasks such as assigning credentials to different individuals, managing user accounts, and implementing Privileged Access Management."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution. However, the difficulty also depends on what you are using the solution for. They can improve by providing more documentation, such as tutorials and videos."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"The customization could be improved."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"It could be cheaper."
"Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
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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