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.
"I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"One of the most valuable features of Azure is that it's a very integrated solution. You have to learn how to use it properly, but it's not that hard, and you can define your whole scrum process and deploy it from one place. It was a really nice surprise to see how easily integrated this tool is."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The solution is very simple to use. It has a lot of great practical applications we really appreciate."
"Good security, scalability, and elasticity."
"It is a stable solution because it depends on the workload you expect. Based on that data, you can configure how many users it can handle."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"The product makes it easy to spin up new environments and develop new technologies."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution. However, the difficulty also depends on what you are using the solution for. They can improve by providing more documentation, such as tutorials and videos."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"There needs to be better data security. There are organizations that do not want their data to be submitted to Microsoft, they should have strong encryption."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"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."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be 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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