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.
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"It is quite easy to provision new virtual services for our use. The procedures are quite straightforward and simple as compared to other competitors, such as Microsoft or Huawei. This is what we are happy about with Amazon AWS. It is pretty mature in terms of the availability of most of the infrastructure components. If you want to deploy a server on your platform, everything is already there in terms of the operating system, network components, securities, and data encryption. It is also quite scalable and stable."
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"Reduces work for our IT teams and saves us a lot of time."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"If Amazon AWS can offer more self-paced learning tools, on their website, on CBT, it'll be easier for more people to familiarize themselves with their service. Especially when they are delivering new services from time to time. Educational tools that can help users familiarize themselves with their service. It would be great."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"It just needs to be improved from the security perspective."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
"Its pricing should be better. In terms of features, I am yet to explore the whole solution, and the current features seem okay."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
"I would like to see the console improved."
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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