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.
"We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"The product is easy to use."
"Great scalability."
"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."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"I would like to see more advanced functionality in terms of information security."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"The main issue is the lack of notifications for updates. Processes for certain operations, like connecting to Git repositories, have changed without sufficient communication. A system to announce or update users about these changes would be very helpful."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
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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