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 features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go."
"The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution."
"The installation process is very simple."
"It integrates well."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"We validate customer videos and speech in real-time by utilizing language translation services and image processing. This involves converting speech to text and vice versa in real-time. Customers record videos where they speak predefined text. We capture the image and speech, convert it to text, and compare it with the standardized text."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"The availability could be better."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"I'd like to see AWS implement consolidated billing for businesses operating under one group. We want to consolidate the functionalities but keep the billing separate. That is a challenge we've faced, and I feel it's something they can improve on. For example, maybe you have three businesses that are operating under one group, and you want each entity to have a separate bill for the respective workload that they're using."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"The main issue is the lack of notifications for updates. Processes for certain operations, like connecting to Git repositories, have changed without sufficient communication. A system to announce or update users about these changes would be very helpful."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"Improvements are needed in Azure to enhance integration tools and support for effectively migrating and managing third-party dependencies."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"The support subscription models need improvement."
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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