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 like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS."
"The product has a lot of new functionality."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"It is stable and collaborative."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"Great features at a good price."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"The solution is very simple to use. It has a lot of great practical applications we really appreciate."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"The interface could be improved."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"I would like to see the console improved."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
"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."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
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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