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.
"We use AWS for multiple purposes, such as developing APIs and API integration using API Gateway. We use API Gateway, Python Combinator, Lambda Glue, and ETL Process. We have used EMR for big data processing. If we need a tool for computing, we go with the Lamda DMS. There are many services available in AWS that meet our needs."
"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 has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"Cloud Management has been a valuable feature."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"It's very easy to use."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"This is a very stable product."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"Our use case is limited to virtual services and RPA development. We are not using it quite heavily, and there are not many issues or problems so far. However, it would be great if it could be integrated with more AI features and proactive monitoring. It could also have more automatic capacity expansion features. For example, when renting out some space, memory, or computing power, the service can have the capacity to expand by itself without being manually handled by us."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"I haven't checked the console for some time, however, compared to the AWS console, the interaction console of the web part, the web services, it's not so easy."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"The solution needs a more integrated password feature."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"The product's initial setup process and stability need improvement."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
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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