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.
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"Cloud Management has been a valuable feature."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things."
"The scalability is good."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"The customer service and support are very good. When we raise a ticket, we quickly get feedback or someone assigned to help us identify the problem, which, 90% of the time, was on our end. I'm very happy with the support they provide."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"I think the price can be improved."
"In terms of additional features we'd like to see, the one thing that comes to mind is better integration with Oracle. We have a lot of Oracle databases, and there is no other option to either migrate to PaaS, stay on-prem, or use Oracle Private Cloud."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"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."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"The networking is overly complex."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"Customer services and support should be improved. If a user faces challenges in accessing Microsoft Azure, the support team takes time—it could be 24 to 48 hours—to resolve them. We need solutions in four to five hours. And there are business-critical issues where we need an immediate resolution."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
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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