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 main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"The best thing is scalability."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"It scales extremely well."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"It is easy to use."
"Its scalability is powerful. We are providing services for people to schedule an appointment for the vaccine and for COVID testing to see whether they are positive or negative. In one night, we can have 240,000 people in one minute to schedule an appointment. I am very happy with the scalability."
"I know there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of new services lately. I'm really not aware of all of them."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy."
"We like everything about the solution except for the general price."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"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."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
"It should have a better hybrid-cloud central analysis. Their support service also needs to be improved. Our main concern is support calls. Our issue is basically related to the technical functionality of the services that we use. It doesn't behave as expected, and support often fails to solve the problem."
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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