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 for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"Great scalability."
"The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"It is easy to deploy."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"AWS support could be better."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"There is a bit of a learning curve. That said, it's likely no different than learning any other cloud."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"There needs to be better data security. There are organizations that do not want their data to be submitted to Microsoft, they should have strong encryption."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"For deploying multiple resources in a big number, such as in hundreds, we need a streamlined process and more user-friendly scrips. The scripts have to be more user-friendly, and they should also supply some standard templates to deploy multiple resources at a time. Currently, it is very easy to deploy a couple of resources, but if you want to deploy multiple resources, it becomes complex. The material that they provide for integration with an existing on-prem data center is complex. They have to make them user-friendly. The scripts related to resource management need to be simplified."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"I would like to see more advanced functionality in terms of information security."
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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