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.
"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."
"The best thing is scalability."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"The Azure Portal has an advantage in terms of UX making buying resources or downgrading is really easier to understand. AWS has micro, smaller functionalities whereas Azure has more end-to-end focus which makes it easier saving you time and money."
"The solution is very simple to use. It has a lot of great practical applications we really appreciate."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"It is stable and collaborative."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"IAM must be made simple and straightforward."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
"When we work with Microsoft Azure we deploy it in a hybrid system. We do many operations with the open stack and I used it for APIs connected to Microsoft Azure. The reduction is because those APIs and our tools that are required to connect are not for the Microsft Azure solution. It has a bit of complexity, nothing to do with Microsoft Azure as a CSP."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"The support, the cost, the way they have the tiers, this could all be improved."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
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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