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.
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The payment structure is very good."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"The integration with Databricks is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Access Management and the PIN modules."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"There is no control of downtime."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"Requires better integration with other cloud products."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
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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