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 features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"It improves the speed for us to access vendors."
"AWS is easy to manage."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"It's easy to use, and it's scalable. If we want to grow our product more, we can do it."
"The customer service and support are very good. When we raise a ticket, we quickly get feedback or someone assigned to help us identify the problem, which, 90% of the time, was on our end. I'm very happy with the support they provide."
"The product scales extremely well."
"We didn't have any problems setting it up."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"Faster API response times and an improved console experience would be better. Enhanced performance across APIs and the console would streamline our workflows."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"The pricing criteria can be improved with broken-down terms that can be understood easily."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
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.
See our list of best Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) vendors and best PaaS Clouds vendors.
We monitor all Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.