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 most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"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."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"Databricks is really nice because you have the power to process lots of data and you can create queries and provide big analysis for the business using a robust cluster."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"This solution could offer more security."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"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."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
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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