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.
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"The monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product."
"Cost-effective and tolerant."
"User friendly solution."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"It integrates well."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"One feature I like in Microsoft Azure is its ability to host and run applications on virtual machines. It is a basic yet crucial capability for our team."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"It should be more secure and have more integrations."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"Integrate as a service. A lot of Microsoft software licensing options aren’t yet in Azure. Also, the ability to integrate with other technologies, such as other options on the market based on RISC Technologies."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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