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 ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"The best thing is scalability."
"The product is easy to use."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Access Management and the PIN modules."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"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."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There's a huge cost for support."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"The price could be better."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"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."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"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."
"I haven't checked the console for some time, however, compared to the AWS console, the interaction console of the web part, the web services, it's not so easy."
"A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
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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