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.
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"It is quite easy to provision new virtual services for our use. The procedures are quite straightforward and simple as compared to other competitors, such as Microsoft or Huawei. This is what we are happy about with Amazon AWS. It is pretty mature in terms of the availability of most of the infrastructure components. If you want to deploy a server on your platform, everything is already there in terms of the operating system, network components, securities, and data encryption. It is also quite scalable and stable."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"Storage has made remote access to files much more painless and easy."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"The product is a cloud solution."
"The tool has proven to be valuable for our organization by enhancing the availability and reliability of services. Our website and several applications hosted on it now benefit from improved availability features and increased reliability."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"The features that should be improved are that there should be better clarity on their invoicing. There are so many things they charge for - high line items in the invoice. I think there should be more clarity and more ease of use with their billing. I'd like to see better ease of use of with the billing console and a clear dashboard to understand the usage."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"Its pricing should be better. In terms of features, I am yet to explore the whole solution, and the current features seem okay."
"Integration with more platforms needs improvement."
"The alerts management should be improved. Alerts management is very complicated to configure. You have to go through a lot of tests and config action groups to set up those things. It is very complicated, and it can be simplified."
"The security must be improved."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"We like that they have the new capabilities, but sometimes they're deprecating capabilities faster than we can handle. If we had to improve it, we would want to stay on some of these older capabilities a bit longer."
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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