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.
"I like the technical support."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"User friendly solution."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"The storage on offer is excellent."
"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"Great features at a good price."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"The most valuable features I have found to be the auto-scaling feature and the interface."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"The price could be better."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"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 technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"It would be helpful if Azure provided more information on the various add-ons to give people an understanding of what they are used for, and how they're applied by other companies or businesses."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The cost calculation for the services can be an unclear aspect which makes it difficult to estimate the expenses incurred accurately."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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