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.
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"A scalable and secure product"
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"We use AWS for multiple purposes, such as developing APIs and API integration using API Gateway. We use API Gateway, Python Combinator, Lambda Glue, and ETL Process. We have used EMR for big data processing. If we need a tool for computing, we go with the Lamda DMS. There are many services available in AWS that meet our needs."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Technical support has been extremely helpful."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"We use the cognitive service, virtual machines, and customer DB. Microsoft Azure is also scalable and easy to install."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"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."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"AWS should provide even more support and engagement to accelerate the adoption of new services and features."
"The price could be better."
"The networking is overly complex."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"The pricing can be reduced."
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"The management portal can be confusing sometimes. We have difficulty navigating the menus because the terminology is unclear, especially when referring to the content or actionable items."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
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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