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 most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"The technical support is good."
"This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"It integrates well."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"Technical support has been good over the years."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"The main benefit of Microsoft Azure is that it is cloud-based. We are using Microsoft Visual Studio for our code and it is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"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."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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