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.
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"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."
"It's highly scalable. It's guaranteed 99.99% uptime, and it shows you can scale up or scale out whenever you need more space."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"Being able to set up, change and configure VMs is easy - a lot easier than in AWS."
"It is a stable solution because it depends on the workload you expect. Based on that data, you can configure how many users it can handle."
"My experience with technical support so far is very good."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"Amazon needs to develop better tools for troubleshooting network traffic, application insights, performance, and even some aspects of integration mapping. I'm hoping AWS implements something like Azure's Network Watcher and a log analytics solution where a can pull logs from various services and present them in a single dashboard. I want to summarize the performance and usage of every service and application."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"Performance could be improved."
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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