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 solution can scale quite well."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"Friendly console for implementation."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"AWS has a lot of flexibility, which is great."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"Storage has made remote access to files much more painless and easy."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"The initial setup is simple."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"The ability to quickly create and manage resources is critical to getting things done, Azure just makes getting things done a lot simpler."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"User interface and portal are great."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"The networking is overly complex."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"Amazon AWS should integrate AI capabilities."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"The availability could be better."
"I would like to see more advanced functionality in terms of information security."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"The security of the solution could always be much better."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"The cost calculation for the services can be an unclear aspect which makes it difficult to estimate the expenses incurred accurately."
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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