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.
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"The product is easy to use."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"Since AWS came a bit later to the market, they are always improving and upgrading their platform."
"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"The interface could be improved."
"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."
"They could lower the cost. The setup could also be easier."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"One area for enhancement could be in the realm of big data and unstructured data storage."
"I think better accelerators and better tools that can be used to migrate and leverage the existing models and data schemas are needed."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"We like that they have the new capabilities, but sometimes they're deprecating capabilities faster than we can handle. If we had to improve it, we would want to stay on some of these older capabilities a bit longer."
"The solution is too expensive."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
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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