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.
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that they offer everything around in just one platform."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"It is quick and easy to deploy. It is flexible, and we can deploy a resource anytime. We like and prefer the pay-as-you-go model."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"We validate customer videos and speech in real-time by utilizing language translation services and image processing. This involves converting speech to text and vice versa in real-time. Customers record videos where they speak predefined text. We capture the image and speech, convert it to text, and compare it with the standardized text."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"We have a very good approach internally with what we have developed. It involved overcoming some hurdles regarding the single point of truth or single point of configuration, which is sometimes not that easy for AWS. There are dashboards and you have your web service, but bringing all these together and orchestrating is sometimes quite difficult."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"It could be cheaper."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"The cost calculation for the services can be an unclear aspect which makes it difficult to estimate the expenses incurred accurately."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
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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