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.
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery."
"As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"We didn't have any problems setting it up."
"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."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"There is the potential to scale."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"If Amazon AWS can offer more self-paced learning tools, on their website, on CBT, it'll be easier for more people to familiarize themselves with their service. Especially when they are delivering new services from time to time. Educational tools that can help users familiarize themselves with their service. It would be great."
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"It could be more flexible. If you look at all Mircosoft products, they are not up to the mark. For example, Azure Ready doesn't provide the same kind of access a domain administrator has and the kind of flexibility that they have when using Active Directory. Microsoft support could be better. Their service could also be better. For example, specific policies for templates suddenly become unavailable. When I checked, they said that certain things might be withdrawn based on customer feedback. This happened once or twice, and it wasn't available at all for five days, it just went down."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"Its pricing should be better. In terms of features, I am yet to explore the whole solution, and the current features seem okay."
"You eventually end up with a large collection of 'bits' all working together, I find it hard to be able to create a logical 'box' and put all the 'bits' that need to be in that box / application into the one place."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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