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.
"Technical support has been great."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"AWS is easy to manage."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"We find Azure particularly beneficial when working with clients who are heavily invested in Microsoft solutions. It necessitates that we also leverage Azure for our solutions and services."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"The incorporation of several kinds of storage, such as SSD Premium, enhanced the performance of machines."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"Storage has made remote access to files much more painless and easy."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"Our use case is limited to virtual services and RPA development. We are not using it quite heavily, and there are not many issues or problems so far. However, it would be great if it could be integrated with more AI features and proactive monitoring. It could also have more automatic capacity expansion features. For example, when renting out some space, memory, or computing power, the service can have the capacity to expand by itself without being manually handled by us."
"Monthly costs can be high if you don't maintain your usage"
"Requires better integration with other cloud products."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"The main issue is the lack of notifications for updates. Processes for certain operations, like connecting to Git repositories, have changed without sufficient communication. A system to announce or update users about these changes would be very helpful."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
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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