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.
"Almost everything is good. It is a whole ecosystem. It is not only the storage, computing, or networking. It is interesting in the way all things are combined to form this ecosystem. It is a very well-built and logical ecosystem that has some small building blocks. These building blocks can be used in the right way to build a much bigger ecosystem that is robust, secure, scalable."
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"AWS has large community support."
"The payment structure is very good."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable so far."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"The technical support can take longer than expected sometimes. They could improve on this."
"We don't know whether to increase server capacity or alert notifications. We don't know which hard disc to purchase or what the next recommended CPU is. There should be an indicator. We would like to have more guidance."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
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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