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 most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
"This is a very stable product."
"In terms of scalability, it is perfect."
"Databricks is really nice because you have the power to process lots of data and you can create queries and provide big analysis for the business using a robust cluster."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"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."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"There is a bit of a learning curve. That said, it's likely no different than learning any other cloud."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
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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