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.
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery."
"I like ETL, the EC2 platform, and Route 53. These features are a great complement to the basic infrastructure of any company. The AWS platform has many features, but the fundamental cloud infrastructure is the most important."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"It scales extremely well."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"Microsoft Azure is built for scalability."
"One feature I like in Microsoft Azure is its ability to host and run applications on virtual machines. It is a basic yet crucial capability for our team."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"The product makes it easy to spin up new environments and develop new technologies."
"Good security, scalability, and elasticity."
"There is the potential to scale."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"We like everything about the solution except for the general price."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."
"The price needs improvement."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
"I would want Microsoft Azure to provide some credits that can be used to test and validate Microsoft’s different solutions since it is an area where the product lacks."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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