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 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."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"It integrates well."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that they offer everything around in just one platform."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"Friendly console for implementation."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"It is stable and scalable."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"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."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"AWS is very expensive."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"The security of the solution could always be much better."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"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."
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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