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 monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product."
"The technical support is good."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"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."
"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."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
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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