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 installation process is very simple."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"Azure services like EDM and Batch are all famous, but one of the most popular services for development is Azure Functions, especially the PaaS option. Depending on a customer's environment, they can go for the PaaS."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"I think Azure's level of automation to achieve efficiency or agility is valuable. I also like the change capability cadence, the showback capabilities, and understanding what our costs are."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"While integrating services from different vendors, the perceived costs are high, with occasional confusion about specific charges, especially in data transfer scenarios between regions."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
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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