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.
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"It is easy to use."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"We pretty much like everything and we are excited about the seamless capability the EC2 service is offering."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"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 solution is useful for handling large amounts of data."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"Amazon support could be better."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"The pricing in our region can be a bit high."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"The alerts management should be improved. Alerts management is very complicated to configure. You have to go through a lot of tests and config action groups to set up those things. It is very complicated, and it can be simplified."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"The pricing could be better."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
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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