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 performance of AWS is excellent."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"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."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"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."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"The solution has high stability."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"There is the potential to scale."
"It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"This is a very stable product."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"The price could be better."
"The pricing could be a bit high at times. It's something they could improve upon."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"AWS for API, or Seller Central, is no improvement from what we had (our internal tools we designed to update accounts, change customer network profiles, monitoring, MRTG graphs, etc), when AWS should be blazing."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"The solution could use mutual segmentation for servers. It would be ideal if you could constitute something like five or 15 groups among the groups of different computers inside Azure."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
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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