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.
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"It scales extremely well."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"It is easy to install."
"There is the potential to scale."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"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."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"AWS for API, or Seller Central, is no improvement from what we had (our internal tools we designed to update accounts, change customer network profiles, monitoring, MRTG graphs, etc), when AWS should be blazing."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"I would like to see the console improved."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
"Microsoft Azure is so complicated inside. If you should do something internally, if you have to configure something, the opinion about Azure is that it is a little complicated inside. That's why the end users and clients are looking for help and why we help them configure and do anything inside of Azure. That is why we offer other tools to optimize the Azure environment."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
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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