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.
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"Great scalability."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"Cost-effective and tolerant."
"Amazon AWS is user-friendly and intuitive."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"The technical support has been good."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"I have found all the features to be good."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"The pricing is something you have to watch. You really have to constantly optimize your costs for instances and things like that. That can become a job in itself to manage just from a budgeting standpoint."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"There is no control of downtime."
"Microsoft Azure is so complicated inside. If you should do something internally, if you have to configure something, the opinion about Azure is that it is a little complicated inside. That's why the end users and clients are looking for help and why we help them configure and do anything inside of Azure. That is why we offer other tools to optimize the Azure environment."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"The solution's email hosting pricing could be improved."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"We use Microsoft Server 2019 and 2016. And I didn't like the 2019 client, so we had to downgrade back to 2016. The main issue there was its monitoring system. Our client needed an alternative, and if they were using more Windows products, they also needed to make that downgrade."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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