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.
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"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."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We can easily access and integrate data sources from other platforms."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"The billing should be more competitive."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
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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