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 AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"In general, the cost management in Amazon is complicated. It's not too straightforward."
"AWS's security model, including IAM or security groups, has contributed to our organization's compliance. It manages authentication, permissions, and overall security posture, which helps us maintain compliance."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"The product has a lot of new functionality."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"I get all the features under one roof."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"The system is more secure, and this is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"Somehow Amazon associated their marketplace as a place to find images of various installs (preconfigured software) and was late in the game enabling and promoting SaaS-based solutions. Thus, the AWS marketplace has near zero awareness in the mind of the prospect to find solutions to various problems plaguing them."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"The pricing criteria can be improved with broken-down terms that can be understood easily."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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