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.
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"AWS is stable."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"The stability has been excellent."
"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."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"Amazon support could be better."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible."
"There is a need to be better on-premise solutions that are more helpful. However, I don't think that is the goal of Microsoft Azure. They want the solution to be secure cloud solutions with cloud applications. This is their main goal at the moment."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"The security must be improved."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"The microservices and analytics of Azure are good areas that could be improved."
"In my opinion, what could be improved is making the actual costs more predictable. It is very difficult to estimate the cost or the budget you are going to need to run your environment in Azure Cloud. You have to be a specialist to understand how you will be charged, which constantly changes."
"Establishing the account in the beginning was very difficult."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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