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.
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"Cost-effective and tolerant."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"We can easily upgrade and downgrade the Instance."
"It improves the speed for us to access vendors."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"The Azure Portal has an advantage in terms of UX making buying resources or downgrading is really easier to understand. AWS has micro, smaller functionalities whereas Azure has more end-to-end focus which makes it easier saving you time and money."
"The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
"The performance is good."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"I'm not an expert on the product, but if I had to suggest one improvement, I know a feature that would allow a person to backup his on-premise solution to the cloud directly with one click would be useful. This solution should be agnostic because sometimes a product that was backed up with Veeam is highly compatible with Commvault. I think it would be better if these backup features were agnostic. Viewing a build could also be improved. It's not easy to follow up on your consumption and see how much you're paying and how much you will be paying. Viewing the build could be more clear."
"The pricing is expensive"
"The availability could be better."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"The price needs improvement."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"There are always new features to add in terms of additional indicators, improving the looks of the dashboard and stuff. There are some dashboards that are not attractive, we are looking to make them fancier and nice-looking."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"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 support subscription models need improvement."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
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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