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.
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"The most valuable feature is the backup ability. Most people are used to one type of backup solution that they're using, but most of these solutions have features that make it difficult to transfer to the cloud. I know that Veeam now gives people the opportunity to backup some on-premises solutions to the cloud. This feature is something that a lot of people are looking for."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"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"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"The solution is secure and easy to use."
"There is the potential to scale."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"One of the issues I'm facing is that my RDS SQL Server version 5.8 is reaching its end of life, and I need to upgrade it to a customer-wanted version. I want to do this on Graviton instances, but Graviton only starts with version 8.0 and currently doesn't support the 5.8 series. We've raised a Priority Feature Request (PFR) with AWS to have this functionality added for at least three months. This would give us enough time to upgrade our database to the 8.0 version without any issues."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"The alerts management should be improved. Alerts management is very complicated to configure. You have to go through a lot of tests and config action groups to set up those things. It is very complicated, and it can be simplified."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"Dashboards and reporting 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 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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