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.
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"User friendly solution."
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"The billing should be more competitive."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"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."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"A problem with Azure is that the architecture that they have is not really compliant — not really connecting with the endpoint Cloud."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"Some of the capabilities available in an on-premise SQL Server aren't available in Azure. For instance, we found Azure Managed Instance to be lacking in certain aspects. One of our clients decided to stay on-premise rather than migrate to Azure because of this reason."
"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."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
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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