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 cutting-edge design is valuable."
"The cloud storage based on S3 is one the most valuable services we have deployed since it allows us infinite scale in storage and extremely high durability."
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that they offer everything around in just one platform."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"Azure services like EDM and Batch are all famous, but one of the most popular services for development is Azure Functions, especially the PaaS option. Depending on a customer's environment, they can go for the PaaS."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"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."
"It is easy to install."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"It just needs to be improved from the security perspective."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
"The subscriptions are complicated."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"Could be more user friendly; security features should be improved."
"The pricing criteria can be improved with broken-down terms that can be understood easily."
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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