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 initial setup is straightforward."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"Security, quick deployment, and scalability are the top three features for me."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"AWS is easy to manage."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"The pricing is expensive"
"The billing should be more competitive."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"There is a need to be better on-premise solutions that are more helpful. However, I don't think that is the goal of Microsoft Azure. They want the solution to be secure cloud solutions with cloud applications. This is their main goal at the moment."
"Azure could be improved with better security. The world is changing and their security could be better. Compared to five years ago, many of these cloud systems are a lot better, especially since you can set up a private cloud and configure your services to make it more secure."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The security of the solution could always be much better."
"Establishing the account in the beginning was very difficult."
"They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems. They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions."
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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