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.
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the S3."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"Friendly console for implementation."
"As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
"Offers many data security features including securing network access."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"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."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"We like that you sign in only once and that grants access to all of the Microsft applications, as well as others such as ServiceNow and SAP Concur."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"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."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"There are times when using a service in Microsoft Azure can be confusing because you have four or five options that do similar operations. It would be helpful if there was a clear decision tree around those features. Microsoft does provide a lot of decision trees around a lot of their services, but it's not for everything."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"The pricing could be better."
"It would be helpful if it offered more integration with other platforms."
"We had issues with the Mobile Service ORM and the Azure SQL Database (cloud version of SQL Server). At times, the queries that are created automatically from the ORM mapping are not very well optimized for this database and that can lead to performance and stability issues. On occasion, the connection manager from the ORM does not handle the database connections very well."
"Integration with other cloud environments can be tricky at times."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
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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