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.
"It's a flexible solution."
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"Setting up AWS was pretty easy. It was straightforward to set up, and it took us a year to develop and migrate our mobile banking solution to the AWS cloud. Our migration experience was quite positive."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"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."
"The initial setup is simple."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"Customer access to APIs is limited so that logs cannot be checked properly."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"Technical support needs to be better."
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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