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.
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is the Area feature. Additionally, the SQL Server DB as a serverless pool is useful, storage-wide external tables are helpful, and PolyBase is very good at reading external data. The capacity of Synapse to analyze in analytics is very good and it supports a range of data."
"It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"It is a stable solution because it depends on the workload you expect. Based on that data, you can configure how many users it can handle."
"The price could be better."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"They should really consolidate and make things simpler rather than offer you hundreds of random options. The way everything is arranged really forces users to figure out everything on their own and then, on top of that, to calculate the total costs. There's an infinite number of combinations even just with cost calculations. It's just too much."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"The pricing in our region can be a bit high."
"I would like to see the console improved."
"Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."
"Support could be improved. If you pay for a higher plan, it's okay, however, the lower plans don't offer as good of a service experience."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
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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