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 best features are flexibility and cost."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"Amazon AWS is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"Microsoft Azure has hundred of services that they offer on the platform."
"Managed storage capabilities, which create a very simple way to create, copy, and replicate local or geo-replicate, it's very simple to assign workloads."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"The pricing could be a bit high at times. It's something they could improve upon."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"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."
"This solution could be improved by a better licensing model, especially for third-party software. Amazon AWS could also potentially be improved by more free storage, but I think that it's okay when compared to competitors' products."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"Establishing the account in the beginning was very difficult."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"The scalability could improve."
"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"Integration with more platforms needs improvement."
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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