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 availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"AWS's security model, including IAM or security groups, has contributed to our organization's compliance. It manages authentication, permissions, and overall security posture, which helps us maintain compliance."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"Amazon support could be better."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"Somehow Amazon associated their marketplace as a place to find images of various installs (preconfigured software) and was late in the game enabling and promoting SaaS-based solutions. Thus, the AWS marketplace has near zero awareness in the mind of the prospect to find solutions to various problems plaguing them."
"Amazon needs to develop better tools for troubleshooting network traffic, application insights, performance, and even some aspects of integration mapping. I'm hoping AWS implements something like Azure's Network Watcher and a log analytics solution where a can pull logs from various services and present them in a single dashboard. I want to summarize the performance and usage of every service and application."
"I think the price can be improved."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"I would like it if Microsoft communicated better about upcoming changes before they roll them out. Sometimes when Microsoft implements changes, they don't notify the users promptly enough. I would like to know about new features, especially Office 365."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"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."
"I haven't checked the console for some time, however, compared to the AWS console, the interaction console of the web part, the web services, it's not so easy."
"The subscriptions are complicated."
"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."
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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