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.
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"Almost everything is good. It is a whole ecosystem. It is not only the storage, computing, or networking. It is interesting in the way all things are combined to form this ecosystem. It is a very well-built and logical ecosystem that has some small building blocks. These building blocks can be used in the right way to build a much bigger ecosystem that is robust, secure, scalable."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual machine."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"The performance is good."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"There is no control of downtime."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"It should have a better hybrid-cloud central analysis. Their support service also needs to be improved. Our main concern is support calls. Our issue is basically related to the technical functionality of the services that we use. It doesn't behave as expected, and support often fails to solve the problem."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"The pricing in our region can be a bit high."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"Quite an expensive solution."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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