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 has large community support."
"Amazon AWS is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"It is easy to install."
"The customer service and support are very good. When we raise a ticket, we quickly get feedback or someone assigned to help us identify the problem, which, 90% of the time, was on our end. I'm very happy with the support they provide."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"Technical support has been good over the years."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"We are using Microsoft Azure because our organization uses a lot of Microsoft solutions. We have used Microsoft technology for a long time and we have internal engineers with great capability that understand the technology. This is why Azure is the best for us."
"We like everything about the solution except for the general price."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
"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."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
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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