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.
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"Great scalability."
"The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"Azure services like EDM and Batch are all famous, but one of the most popular services for development is Azure Functions, especially the PaaS option. Depending on a customer's environment, they can go for the PaaS."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"Amazon needs to develop better tools for troubleshooting network traffic, application insights, performance, and even some aspects of integration mapping. I'm hoping AWS implements something like Azure's Network Watcher and a log analytics solution where a can pull logs from various services and present them in a single dashboard. I want to summarize the performance and usage of every service and application."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"Ease of use could be improved."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
"The management portal can be confusing sometimes. We have difficulty navigating the menus because the terminology is unclear, especially when referring to the content or actionable items."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"I don't understand why we spend so much time and money on Azure when Microsoft relies on third-party companies for support in the CSP model. I don't know how the support model works within Microsoft, but giving it to poor-performing third-party companies is not ideal."
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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