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.
"Great scalability."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"It's a flexible solution."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"The advantage of Microsoft Azure is its simplicity. It's easy to launch a project. However, the problem with this kind of solution is the reliability for the customers. You have to be sure to stay with Microsoft."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"I'd like to see AWS implement consolidated billing for businesses operating under one group. We want to consolidate the functionalities but keep the billing separate. That is a challenge we've faced, and I feel it's something they can improve on. For example, maybe you have three businesses that are operating under one group, and you want each entity to have a separate bill for the respective workload that they're using."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"This solution could offer more security."
"There is room for improvement in cost. Everyone complains about AWS being expensive. The initial cost starts small but can skyrocket unexpectedly."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"It could be cheaper."
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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