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.
"It integrates well."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"We have many projects where we can resolve a lot of issues with Amazon AWS. It has given customers a lot of visibility with their data. Many customers do not know what they can learn from their data and I provide them with this using useful information using Amazon AWS."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"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."
"It is stable and collaborative."
"The system is more secure, and this is valuable."
"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."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"The solution could always be further improved on the commercial side of things. Amazon Web Services are not cheap. It would be ideal if it was less expensive for the customer."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"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."
"I think it would be good to keep making progress on giving users the ability to do action calls on Data Factory. Right now, it's mostly local. Perhaps Microsoft could add the ability to put some calls in the workflow."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
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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