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 most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"We've built several AI ML solutions and done lots of work on the GPUs available on Amazon servers. We did a lot of work around web spidering, natural language processing, and machine learning or deep learning workloads."
"Easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types."
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The most important thing is we don't have to maintain any physical infrastructure. With typical conventional on-premise solutions, we have to maintain many things like the hardware, clusters, etc. With this cloud platform, you don't have to worry about all those things. We have the service always available, and this is the main advantage. I like that we use everything on our standard Active Directory on on-premises on Azure. The key advantage is that you can have the sole indication based on the cloud. This isn't possible with an on-premise Active Directory. This enables work from home and at the office because it's on the cloud."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"The price could be better."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"Amazon needs to develop better tools for troubleshooting network traffic, application insights, performance, and even some aspects of integration mapping. I'm hoping AWS implements something like Azure's Network Watcher and a log analytics solution where a can pull logs from various services and present them in a single dashboard. I want to summarize the performance and usage of every service and application."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."
"The pricing can be reduced."
"It would be helpful if it offered more integration with other platforms."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
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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