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.
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"The monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"One of the most valuable features is that Amazon AWS has a lot of data centers and regions where we can position our virtual machines for leverage. Amazon AWS is also easy to use. You can quickly spin up something, use Explorer, building proofs of concept, things like that. Once the proof of concept is built once and we know how things are going to look from a production perspective, we try to move everything to the data centers. These features and the ease of use are the main reasons why we use AWS."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"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 has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"The product is a cloud solution."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"The technical support has been excellent."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"AWS support could be better."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"I think the price can be improved."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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