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.
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"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 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 installation process is very simple."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"It is quite easy to provision new virtual services for our use. The procedures are quite straightforward and simple as compared to other competitors, such as Microsoft or Huawei. This is what we are happy about with Amazon AWS. It is pretty mature in terms of the availability of most of the infrastructure components. If you want to deploy a server on your platform, everything is already there in terms of the operating system, network components, securities, and data encryption. It is also quite scalable and stable."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable so far."
"My experience with technical support so far is very good."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"Customer access to APIs is limited so that logs cannot be checked properly."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"One area for enhancement could be in the realm of big data and unstructured data storage."
"The pricing could be better."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"The alerts management should be improved. Alerts management is very complicated to configure. You have to go through a lot of tests and config action groups to set up those things. It is very complicated, and it can be simplified."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."
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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