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 services that we are using have frequent updates, at least twice a year. They provide a new version that has more capabilities or features that fit our process and procedures."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"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."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."
"We like that you sign in only once and that grants access to all of the Microsft applications, as well as others such as ServiceNow and SAP Concur."
"The monitoring features are very good."
"It is easy to install."
"Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"It comes with a lot of ready-made studies that we can connect with other existing Microsoft applications, for example, Office, Outlook, Chatline, and OneDrive. Everything is behind the scenes running with Azure. It's easy to build the connectors."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"The solution needs a more integrated password feature."
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"The subscriptions are complicated."
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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