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 setup is straightforward."
"Technical support has been great."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"I think the single sign-on functionality and the ease with which you can deposit things on the cloud have been valuable. Azure has very robust security functionalities and authentication features, which come with mobility, along with backup and credential checks."
"This is a very stable product."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"Amazon support could be better."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"When we are doing transfers of records in large amounts, for example, petabytes of data or few long datasets, the performance should not degrade as it does."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"I haven't checked the console for some time, however, compared to the AWS console, the interaction console of the web part, the web services, it's not so easy."
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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