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.
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"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."
"I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"There are several products within Azure."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"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 advantage of Microsoft Azure is its simplicity. It's easy to launch a project. However, the problem with this kind of solution is the reliability for the customers. You have to be sure to stay with Microsoft."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"The networking is overly complex."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"An integrated platform would make it easier for administrators to monitor and manage."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"The billing should be more competitive."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"If the price were reduced then it would be an improvement."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support."
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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