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 documentation is very good."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"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."
"The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"The product is easy to use."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"The solution is very simple to use. It has a lot of great practical applications we really appreciate."
"The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure."
"I think the single sign-on functionality and the ease with which you can deposit things on the cloud have been valuable. Azure has very robust security functionalities and authentication features, which come with mobility, along with backup and credential checks."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."
"The features that should be improved are that there should be better clarity on their invoicing. There are so many things they charge for - high line items in the invoice. I think there should be more clarity and more ease of use with their billing. I'd like to see better ease of use of with the billing console and a clear dashboard to understand the usage."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"I think better accelerators and better tools that can be used to migrate and leverage the existing models and data schemas are needed."
"With a Synapse environment, we might need to switch to Databricks for better scalability."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"Establishing the account in the beginning was very difficult."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"The initial setup can 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."
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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