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 experience with Amazon AWS is error-free. That was also, of course, something that I really appreciate. That means it's really well-tested and, as published or as declared."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"In general, the cost management in Amazon is complicated. It's not too straightforward."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"The interface of the solution is good."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"We validate customer videos and speech in real-time by utilizing language translation services and image processing. This involves converting speech to text and vice versa in real-time. Customers record videos where they speak predefined text. We capture the image and speech, convert it to text, and compare it with the standardized text."
"Data analytics is one of the efficient features as well."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"The pricing is expensive"
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
"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."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"We like that they have the new capabilities, but sometimes they're deprecating capabilities faster than we can handle. If we had to improve it, we would want to stay on some of these older capabilities a bit longer."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"There should be be better support for microservices and containers."
"The subscriptions are complicated."
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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