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."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"The product is easy to use."
"The product's scalability is good."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The best feature in Microsoft Azure is that I don't have to change computers. I don't have to upgrade or if something breaks or a hard drive crashes. The lack of a physical aspect is the major feature for me."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"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."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual machine."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"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."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"Amazon AWS could improve on security."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"From a security perspective, there is always something that can be improved as we serve our customers."
"It should have a better hybrid-cloud central analysis. Their support service also needs to be improved. Our main concern is support calls. Our issue is basically related to the technical functionality of the services that we use. It doesn't behave as expected, and support often fails to solve the problem."
"The security of the solution could always be much better."
"The solution is too expensive."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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