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.
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"The AWS feature that I most enjoy is Lambda functions. I primarily use serverless components because they allow you to process things without having to compromise on resources like when running EC2 instances or virtual machines. With minimal effort, you can scale up an unlimited number of processes, even concurrently, to process things. I frequently work with web APIs, so I use Lambda a lot in this area."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"Provides a high level of availability and 99% uptime."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"The tool's most valuable aspect is the account management side. This involves tasks such as assigning credentials to different individuals, managing user accounts, and implementing Privileged Access Management."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"An integrated platform would make it easier for administrators to monitor and manage."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"I would like it if Microsoft communicated better about upcoming changes before they roll them out. Sometimes when Microsoft implements changes, they don't notify the users promptly enough. I would like to know about new features, especially Office 365."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
"Due to the pandemic, I haven't been able to utilize their full resources. This has made it complicated to scale up. I hope this will be resolved after the pandemic."
"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."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"One area for enhancement could be in the realm of big data and unstructured data storage."
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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