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 storage on offer is excellent."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"This solution is a good option if you are looking for cloud-based storage. Using a cloud-based solution, it is not required to accommodate a full workload. You can start with a basic version and scale up as needed."
"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."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"Kubernetes service and API management are the most valuable."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"It is really scalable and easy to use."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"It's very scalable. We can scale up to 80-85% without issues."
"The product scales extremely well."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"Amazon AWS could improve on security."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"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."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
"There should be be better support for microservices and containers."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
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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