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 product is highly scalable."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"Technical support has been great."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"It improves the speed for us to access vendors."
"We like that you sign in only once and that grants access to all of the Microsft applications, as well as others such as ServiceNow and SAP Concur."
"The technical support has been good."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"I have found all the features to be good."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"The stability has been excellent."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved."
"The security must be improved."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The management portal can be confusing sometimes. We have difficulty navigating the menus because the terminology is unclear, especially when referring to the content or actionable items."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
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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