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.
"We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"We pretty much like everything and we are excited about the seamless capability the EC2 service is offering."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"The data factory feature."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"The solution is secure and easy to use."
"The technical support has been good."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"It should be more secure and have more integrations."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"One of the issues I'm facing is that my RDS SQL Server version 5.8 is reaching its end of life, and I need to upgrade it to a customer-wanted version. I want to do this on Graviton instances, but Graviton only starts with version 8.0 and currently doesn't support the 5.8 series. We've raised a Priority Feature Request (PFR) with AWS to have this functionality added for at least three months. This would give us enough time to upgrade our database to the 8.0 version without any issues."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"Microsoft Azure is so complicated inside. If you should do something internally, if you have to configure something, the opinion about Azure is that it is a little complicated inside. That's why the end users and clients are looking for help and why we help them configure and do anything inside of Azure. That is why we offer other tools to optimize the Azure environment."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
"The subscriptions are complicated."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
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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