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.
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"Technical support has been great."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"Much more intuitive and more visual than AWS. More obvious where things are and how to change their configurations, etc."
"The cycle development time is pretty fast, and there's very good coupling within the whole set of Microsoft tools, from database to the ETL engine, ingestion through Azure Data Factory, then modeling Synapse Analytics, and reporting through Power BI."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"AWS support could be better."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"The pricing could be a bit high at times. It's something they could improve upon."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
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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