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.
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"AWS is constantly growing in features with every new version. It's a good cloud provider with excellent availability. The integration is good, and their security products are interesting. Amazon is always innovating and delivering new products to customers."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"It integrates well."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"The most important thing is we don't have to maintain any physical infrastructure. With typical conventional on-premise solutions, we have to maintain many things like the hardware, clusters, etc. With this cloud platform, you don't have to worry about all those things. We have the service always available, and this is the main advantage. I like that we use everything on our standard Active Directory on on-premises on Azure. The key advantage is that you can have the sole indication based on the cloud. This isn't possible with an on-premise Active Directory. This enables work from home and at the office because it's on the cloud."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"The valuable features of Microsoft Azure are that it is cloud-based and has good storage. The storage is completely managed by Azure. We do not need to do any patching of security because it is handled by Azure which is a benefit. The solution is fully compatible with the Microsoft technology stack and is very scalable."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"AWS is very expensive."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"This solution could offer more security."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"The price could be better."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"One key area for improvement is the Azure load balancer. Currently, it only supports virtual machines (VMs) running in the same virtual network (vNet) on the backend. They should definitely support machines or IPs running on-premises (prem) or in other Azure VNets. GCP and AWS already support that. So, Azure Load Balancer should support that as well"
"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
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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