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 most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"Technical support has been great."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"It is a stable solution because it depends on the workload you expect. Based on that data, you can configure how many users it can handle."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"The solution is stable."
"Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The price could be better."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"When we are doing transfers of records in large amounts, for example, petabytes of data or few long datasets, the performance should not degrade as it does."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"Improving transparency in billing is crucial for us. Understanding how billing works only becomes clear once we start using the services. A more accurate billing calculator would help us anticipate costs associated with using specific services."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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