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 environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"It's very user-friendly."
"It scales extremely well."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"The customer service and support are very good. When we raise a ticket, we quickly get feedback or someone assigned to help us identify the problem, which, 90% of the time, was on our end. I'm very happy with the support they provide."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"We like that you sign in only once and that grants access to all of the Microsft applications, as well as others such as ServiceNow and SAP Concur."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"There is a feature called Kinesis, which has to do with image processing. There are a few artificial intelligence tools that Amazon AWS should improve on."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
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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