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.
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"The technical support has been good."
"The tool has proven to be valuable for our organization by enhancing the availability and reliability of services. Our website and several applications hosted on it now benefit from improved availability features and increased reliability."
"The monitoring features are very good."
"The product is a cloud solution."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"AWS is very expensive."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"Azure could be improved with better security. The world is changing and their security could be better. Compared to five years ago, many of these cloud systems are a lot better, especially since you can set up a private cloud and configure your services to make it more secure."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"The pricing can be reduced."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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