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.
"We've built several AI ML solutions and done lots of work on the GPUs available on Amazon servers. We did a lot of work around web spidering, natural language processing, and machine learning or deep learning workloads."
"AWS is stable."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"Technical support has been extremely helpful."
"I think the single sign-on functionality and the ease with which you can deposit things on the cloud have been valuable. Azure has very robust security functionalities and authentication features, which come with mobility, along with backup and credential checks."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"Provides a high level of availability and 99% uptime."
"Azure offers broad compatibility with both structured and unstructured data. For example, we use PostgreSQL for storing Azure's official data and manage various types of data, including tabular and image data, accommodating the storage of all data types we handle. So, in many ways, Azure simplified the data storage and management needs."
"Easy to deploy services"
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"This solution could be improved by a better licensing model, especially for third-party software. Amazon AWS could also potentially be improved by more free storage, but I think that it's okay when compared to competitors' products."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"The pricing is expensive"
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"A problem with Azure is that the architecture that they have is not really compliant — not really connecting with the endpoint Cloud."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
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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