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.
"Technical support has been great."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"AWS is stable."
"A scalable and secure product"
"The solution is very simple to use. It has a lot of great practical applications we really appreciate."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"The most valuable features of the solution are for management, such as dashboards."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"Amazon support could be better."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"The microservices and analytics of Azure are good areas that could 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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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