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 has a lot of flexibility, which is great."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"User friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"Its ability to scale is most valuable. There are certain periods of the year when we are busier, and we're able to scale up and scale down with Azure depending upon our needs."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"It is easy to deploy."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"It's easy to use, and it's scalable. If we want to grow our product more, we can do it."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"I like that it is user-friendly and flexible."
"We have a very good approach internally with what we have developed. It involved overcoming some hurdles regarding the single point of truth or single point of configuration, which is sometimes not that easy for AWS. There are dashboards and you have your web service, but bringing all these together and orchestrating is sometimes quite difficult."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"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."
"Requires better integration with other cloud products."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
"They are a bit closed on the customization side. If they open the customization then it will be very good."
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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