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.
"Very good automation and very stable."
"The technical support is good."
"They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"If Amazon AWS can offer more self-paced learning tools, on their website, on CBT, it'll be easier for more people to familiarize themselves with their service. Especially when they are delivering new services from time to time. Educational tools that can help users familiarize themselves with their service. It would be great."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"When we are doing transfers of records in large amounts, for example, petabytes of data or few long datasets, the performance should not degrade as it does."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
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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