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 technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"We are using Microsoft Azure because our organization uses a lot of Microsoft solutions. We have used Microsoft technology for a long time and we have internal engineers with great capability that understand the technology. This is why Azure is the best for us."
"I know there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of new services lately. I'm really not aware of all of them."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"I like that it is user-friendly and flexible."
"There are several products within Azure."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"With a Synapse environment, we might need to switch to Databricks for better scalability."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
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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