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.
"The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"AWS has large community support."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"This is a very stable product."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"I like that it is user-friendly and flexible."
"One of the most valuable features of Azure is that it's a very integrated solution. You have to learn how to use it properly, but it's not that hard, and you can define your whole scrum process and deploy it from one place. It was a really nice surprise to see how easily integrated this tool is."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"AWS is very expensive."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"The solution's email hosting pricing could be improved."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"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"
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
"We had issues with the Mobile Service ORM and the Azure SQL Database (cloud version of SQL Server). At times, the queries that are created automatically from the ORM mapping are not very well optimized for this database and that can lead to performance and stability issues. On occasion, the connection manager from the ORM does not handle the database connections very well."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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