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.
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
"It's very user-friendly."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"User friendly solution."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"Being able to set up, change and configure VMs is easy - a lot easier than in AWS."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy."
"Requires better integration with other cloud products."
"You'll probably experience some sticker shock with AWS. You attempt to understand the cost, but you don't realize what you're paying until you get your first bill. I don't know if Amazon does that on purpose, but costs can get out of control quickly if you don't have someone who specializes in AWS cost management."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"Our use case is limited to virtual services and RPA development. We are not using it quite heavily, and there are not many issues or problems so far. However, it would be great if it could be integrated with more AI features and proactive monitoring. It could also have more automatic capacity expansion features. For example, when renting out some space, memory, or computing power, the service can have the capacity to expand by itself without being manually handled by us."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"I think better accelerators and better tools that can be used to migrate and leverage the existing models and data schemas are needed."
"Azure could be improved with better security. The world is changing and their security could be better. Compared to five years ago, many of these cloud systems are a lot better, especially since you can set up a private cloud and configure your services to make it more secure."
"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 support subscription models need improvement."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
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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