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.
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"Cost-effective and tolerant."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"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."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"I think the most useful feature has been the remote desktop. It has been very helpful when customers have old applications that are not architected to run remotely."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."
"I haven't checked the console for some time, however, compared to the AWS console, the interaction console of the web part, the web services, it's not so easy."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"Talking from a networking perspective, when you create a file or a rule in Azure and you want to view this IP group, sometimes the way it is displayed on the GUI, you don't see the name of the group."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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