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.
"The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services."
"The best thing is scalability."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"We have many projects where we can resolve a lot of issues with Amazon AWS. It has given customers a lot of visibility with their data. Many customers do not know what they can learn from their data and I provide them with this using useful information using Amazon AWS."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"It's very easy to use."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"Azure has the best website amongst all cloud computing platforms. It is simple to utilize, and one can release nearly anything, from app services to host sites."
"Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"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."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The monitoring features are very good."
"The price needs improvement."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"The customization could be improved."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"The process by which our customers can switch from one subscription to another should be simplified."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"The solution’s learning curve could be improved."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
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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