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 AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"The product is highly scalable."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"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."
"A scalable and secure product"
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"The tool's most valuable aspect is the account management side. This involves tasks such as assigning credentials to different individuals, managing user accounts, and implementing Privileged Access Management."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"I think the most useful feature has been the remote desktop. It has been very helpful when customers have old applications that are not architected to run remotely."
"Microsoft Azure is flexible and the performance is great."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"There is no control of downtime."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"The security must be improved."
"When we are doing transfers of records in large amounts, for example, petabytes of data or few long datasets, the performance should not degrade as it does."
"Improvements are needed in Azure to enhance integration tools and support for effectively migrating and managing third-party dependencies."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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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