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 offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the S3."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"The product is highly scalable."
"It integrates well."
"The product has a lot of new functionality."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"We validate customer videos and speech in real-time by utilizing language translation services and image processing. This involves converting speech to text and vice versa in real-time. Customers record videos where they speak predefined text. We capture the image and speech, convert it to text, and compare it with the standardized text."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"Easy to deploy services"
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"The price could be better."
"I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"Technical support could be improved."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"There are times when using a service in Microsoft Azure can be confusing because you have four or five options that do similar operations. It would be helpful if there was a clear decision tree around those features. Microsoft does provide a lot of decision trees around a lot of their services, but it's not for everything."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"We have faced some issues on the pricing side, but it has improved lately. We are trying to adjust to the new pricing methods that they are using now. It should be better from now on."
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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