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.
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"Amazon AWS has a better portfolio. They have an impressive technology and service portfolio."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"The product has a lot of new functionality."
"It's very easy to use."
"Easy to deploy services"
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"The system is more secure, and this is valuable."
"The price needs improvement."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"I think it would be good to keep making progress on giving users the ability to do action calls on Data Factory. Right now, it's mostly local. Perhaps Microsoft could add the ability to put some calls in the workflow."
"There are times when using a service in Microsoft Azure can be confusing because you have four or five options that do similar operations. It would be helpful if there was a clear decision tree around those features. Microsoft does provide a lot of decision trees around a lot of their services, but it's not for everything."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
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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