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 product is highly scalable."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"Setting up AWS was pretty easy. It was straightforward to set up, and it took us a year to develop and migrate our mobile banking solution to the AWS cloud. Our migration experience was quite positive."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The technical support is good."
"There is the potential to scale."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"Provides a high level of availability and 99% uptime."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"There is a bit of a learning curve. That said, it's likely no different than learning any other cloud."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"The support, the cost, the way they have the tiers, this could all be improved."
"Maybe Azure could add an address code to create your analysis without SQL or Python because some business users don't want it to code. So it's good to have a service application that connects to the data lake to conduct analysis and simplify the business process."
"From a security perspective, there is always something that can be improved as we serve our customers."
"One key area for improvement is the Azure load balancer. Currently, it only supports virtual machines (VMs) running in the same virtual network (vNet) on the backend. They should definitely support machines or IPs running on-premises (prem) or in other Azure VNets. GCP and AWS already support that. So, Azure Load Balancer should support that as well"
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
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 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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