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.
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"It integrates well."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"The cycle development time is pretty fast, and there's very good coupling within the whole set of Microsoft tools, from database to the ETL engine, ingestion through Azure Data Factory, then modeling Synapse Analytics, and reporting through Power BI."
"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."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"The tool has proven to be valuable for our organization by enhancing the availability and reliability of services. Our website and several applications hosted on it now benefit from improved availability features and increased reliability."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"We use Microsoft Server 2019 and 2016. And I didn't like the 2019 client, so we had to downgrade back to 2016. The main issue there was its monitoring system. Our client needed an alternative, and if they were using more Windows products, they also needed to make that downgrade."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
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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