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.
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"The cutting-edge design is valuable."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"The payment structure is very good."
"Technical support has been great."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"The product scales extremely well."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
"The solution provides multiple well integrated services which happen to work together seamlessly and provide flexibility and scalability for use cases all around the industry."
"The system is more secure, and this is valuable."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"They can improve the number of requests. Maybe they can increase it from 5,000 requests to 10,000 requests a month. Sometimes when you try to connect, it is quite unresponsive. When you want to communicate using the API, you get an internal error."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"In my opinion, what could be improved is making the actual costs more predictable. It is very difficult to estimate the cost or the budget you are going to need to run your environment in Azure Cloud. You have to be a specialist to understand how you will be charged, which constantly changes."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The license price could be lower."
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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