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.
"AWS is easy to manage."
"The technical support is good."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"AWS is constantly growing in features with every new version. It's a good cloud provider with excellent availability. The integration is good, and their security products are interesting. Amazon is always innovating and delivering new products to customers."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution."
"The monitoring features are very good."
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"Technical support has been good over the years."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Its ability to scale is most valuable. There are certain periods of the year when we are busier, and we're able to scale up and scale down with Azure depending upon our needs."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"IAM must be made simple and straightforward."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved."
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
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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