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.
"AWS is stable."
"The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together."
"This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"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."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"Azure has improved my organization because it is a new technology and so the customers who don't have enough knowledge about the cloud delegate the administration of their cloud infrastructure to us. We incorporate and add a new service to our product lineup about how to manage their Azure. It impacts our business because we're able to incorporate this new service."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"The networking is overly complex."
"If Amazon AWS can offer more self-paced learning tools, on their website, on CBT, it'll be easier for more people to familiarize themselves with their service. Especially when they are delivering new services from time to time. Educational tools that can help users familiarize themselves with their service. It would be great."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"I'd like the solution to be more plug-and-play."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
"It would be helpful if Azure provided more information on the various add-ons to give people an understanding of what they are used for, and how they're applied by other companies or businesses."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"Its pricing should be better. In terms of features, I am yet to explore the whole solution, and the current features seem okay."
"The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."
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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