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 solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"The stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"It is easy to use."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"It scales extremely well."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure is the flexibility you have for all the services and solutions it offers, even if you use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, you have the option to only pay for the services you use."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"The cycle development time is pretty fast, and there's very good coupling within the whole set of Microsoft tools, from database to the ETL engine, ingestion through Azure Data Factory, then modeling Synapse Analytics, and reporting through Power BI."
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"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."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"The customization could be improved."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"The price needs improvement."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"The security must be improved."
"The support team is not responding to my emails."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
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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