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 capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
"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."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"Microsoft Azure is built for scalability."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"The price could be better."
"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 response time of technical support could be better."
"I'm not an expert on the product, but if I had to suggest one improvement, I know a feature that would allow a person to backup his on-premise solution to the cloud directly with one click would be useful. This solution should be agnostic because sometimes a product that was backed up with Veeam is highly compatible with Commvault. I think it would be better if these backup features were agnostic. Viewing a build could also be improved. It's not easy to follow up on your consumption and see how much you're paying and how much you will be paying. Viewing the build could be more clear."
"There is no control of downtime."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
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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