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."
"Setting up AWS was pretty easy. It was straightforward to set up, and it took us a year to develop and migrate our mobile banking solution to the AWS cloud. Our migration experience was quite positive."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things."
"Technical support has been good over the years."
"Provisioning a server is fast, taking only one or two minutes before it is ready."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"The price could be better."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"The solution could use mutual segmentation for servers. It would be ideal if you could constitute something like five or 15 groups among the groups of different computers inside Azure."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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