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 cutting-edge design is valuable."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"Great scalability."
"The product is highly scalable."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"The main benefit of Microsoft Azure is that it is cloud-based. We are using Microsoft Visual Studio for our code and it is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"Easy to deploy services"
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."
"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 product has been quite stable."
"With the Azure solution, you can get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are. It depends on your level of familiarity with the cloud you are using or with your computing. Azure helps you with every stage of the cloud."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"The solution is too expensive."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"It would be helpful if Azure provided more information on the various add-ons to give people an understanding of what they are used for, and how they're applied by other companies or businesses."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"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."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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