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 product is highly scalable."
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"Amazon has a much better understanding of the workflow of data scientists and machine learning processes. This is seen by their SageMaker which offers different versions of the models to be used."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"There are many useful features. We use web apps, so instead of starting a web server, we just have machines running some web services. This was helpful for us in terms of the scalability of the application. We also use Active Directory for authentication and some services for the data backup. It is a very good and reliable solution. It was easy to implement this solution. It fits very well into our plans and covers our needs to provide infrastructure in the cloud. The portal to configure new resources is very easy, and it is very easy to allocate new resources."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"This is a very stable product."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"I think that the interface could be improved."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
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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