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 best features are flexibility and cost."
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"The product is highly scalable."
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"It is easy to deploy."
"I like a lot of features. For example, the Windows virtual solution has helped in such a way that our client-based application was converted into a web-based version through the use of the Windows Virtual Desktop."
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"It was very user-friendly when setting up the virtual machines and console. It was an easy task for my team to create virtual servers and start replications."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"The pricing is expensive"
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"They should really consolidate and make things simpler rather than offer you hundreds of random options. The way everything is arranged really forces users to figure out everything on their own and then, on top of that, to calculate the total costs. There's an infinite number of combinations even just with cost calculations. It's just too much."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"The process by which our customers can switch from one subscription to another should be simplified."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
"It should have cost optimization tools. Customers are required to use third-party applications to avoid usage complications."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
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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