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.
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"The technical support is good."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The stability has been excellent."
"I like that it is user-friendly and flexible."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"We validate customer videos and speech in real-time by utilizing language translation services and image processing. This involves converting speech to text and vice versa in real-time. Customers record videos where they speak predefined text. We capture the image and speech, convert it to text, and compare it with the standardized text."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"The most valuable features of the solution are for management, such as dashboards."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"There is no control of downtime."
"The pricing is something you have to watch. You really have to constantly optimize your costs for instances and things like that. That can become a job in itself to manage just from a budgeting standpoint."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"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."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"While integrating services from different vendors, the perceived costs are high, with occasional confusion about specific charges, especially in data transfer scenarios between regions."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
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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