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.
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"I like a lot of features. For example, the Windows virtual solution has helped in such a way that our client-based application was converted into a web-based version through the use of the Windows Virtual Desktop."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"It comes with a lot of ready-made studies that we can connect with other existing Microsoft applications, for example, Office, Outlook, Chatline, and OneDrive. Everything is behind the scenes running with Azure. It's easy to build the connectors."
"We can easily access and integrate data sources from other platforms."
"Reduces work for our IT teams and saves us a lot of time."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"I think the price can be improved."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"One area where Microsoft Azure could improve is in offering a broader range of pre-built plugins and tools compared to AWS."
"Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved."
"The license price could be lower."
"We had issues with the Mobile Service ORM and the Azure SQL Database (cloud version of SQL Server). At times, the queries that are created automatically from the ORM mapping are not very well optimized for this database and that can lead to performance and stability issues. On occasion, the connection manager from the ORM does not handle the database connections very well."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
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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