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 services that we are using have frequent updates, at least twice a year. They provide a new version that has more capabilities or features that fit our process and procedures."
"Cost-effective and tolerant."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"I like the technical support."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"We would like to see if AWS includes any inbuilt automation. Also, we are very interested in AWS's AI/ML features, as well as IoT, AR, and VR."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"They do not yet have a complete solution for APM monitoring. But this, along with real user monitoring, is something that they are actively working on improving."
"The networking is overly complex."
"They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."
"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."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"The initial setup can be improved."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Its pricing should be better. In terms of features, I am yet to explore the whole solution, and the current features seem okay."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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