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.
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"The availability is good, you can get any service you need immediately."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"The product's scalability is good."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"Azure has improved my organization because it is a new technology and so the customers who don't have enough knowledge about the cloud delegate the administration of their cloud infrastructure to us. We incorporate and add a new service to our product lineup about how to manage their Azure. It impacts our business because we're able to incorporate this new service."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"I get all the features under one roof."
"The data factory feature."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"An integrated platform would make it easier for administrators to monitor and manage."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"AWS is very expensive."
"One key area for improvement is the Azure load balancer. Currently, it only supports virtual machines (VMs) running in the same virtual network (vNet) on the backend. They should definitely support machines or IPs running on-premises (prem) or in other Azure VNets. GCP and AWS already support that. So, Azure Load Balancer should support that as well"
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"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 permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"The product's initial setup process and stability need improvement."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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