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.
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"It improves the speed for us to access vendors."
"Technical support has been great."
"It is intuitive, easy to deploy, and rather quick to deploy and set up. There are a number of native services in the ecosystem. These services are built into the cloud and are mature enough to support you in many ways."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"Kubernetes service and API management are the most valuable."
"It is easy to install."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services."
"The system is more secure, and this is valuable."
"We use the cognitive service, virtual machines, and customer DB. Microsoft Azure is also scalable and easy to install."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
"I would like it if Microsoft communicated better about upcoming changes before they roll them out. Sometimes when Microsoft implements changes, they don't notify the users promptly enough. I would like to know about new features, especially Office 365."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"The initial setup can be improved."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"Could be more user friendly; security features should be improved."
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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