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 solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"Friendly console for implementation."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"It is a very straightforward solution that provides a wide range of services."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure is the flexibility you have for all the services and solutions it offers, even if you use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, you have the option to only pay for the services you use."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"We are using Microsoft Azure because our organization uses a lot of Microsoft solutions. We have used Microsoft technology for a long time and we have internal engineers with great capability that understand the technology. This is why Azure is the best for us."
"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"The billing should be more competitive."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"I don't understand why we spend so much time and money on Azure when Microsoft relies on third-party companies for support in the CSP model. I don't know how the support model works within Microsoft, but giving it to poor-performing third-party companies is not ideal."
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"It is constantly updating. There are weekly releases, sometimes daily releases, and there should be fewer that are consolidated into one."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
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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