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.
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"User friendly solution."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The technical support is good."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"One of the most valuable things about it, besides the stability, is that you can forget about infrastructure because you're just doing it on AWS. I remember the times before AWS and other cloud solutions existed, and it was a huge pain to get real hardware, put it inside, configure everything, report everything, and do a scale. It was very, very difficult compared to how it is now. Not even just AWS, but what all these cloud providers are doing, I would say, is a huge advancement in technology."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the value for money and flexibility."
"The solution has enabled us to provide advanced indicators and analytics to the client on their data."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"It is constantly updating. There are weekly releases, sometimes daily releases, and there should be fewer that are consolidated into one."
"The microservices and analytics of Azure are good areas that could be improved."
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 298 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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