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.
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"Easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"There are several products within Azure."
"User interface and portal are great."
"The advantage of Microsoft Azure is its simplicity. It's easy to launch a project. However, the problem with this kind of solution is the reliability for the customers. You have to be sure to stay with Microsoft."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"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."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"They're already doing quite a bit. I'm not unsatisfied with anything that they're doing right now. They can maybe make the transitions a little smoother and improve its pricing. The pricing for the end-user packages is a bit high."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"With a Synapse environment, we might need to switch to Databricks for better scalability."
"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."
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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