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 storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"User friendly solution."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"It is intuitive, easy to deploy, and rather quick to deploy and set up. There are a number of native services in the ecosystem. These services are built into the cloud and are mature enough to support you in many ways."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"User interface and portal are great."
"We have found the user interface to be intuitive. Microsoft is a master at UI."
"We find Azure particularly beneficial when working with clients who are heavily invested in Microsoft solutions. It necessitates that we also leverage Azure for our solutions and services."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"Good security, scalability, and elasticity."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"I think the price can be improved."
"The price could be better. Support for data analytics could be better. I don't see much support for data analytics. They have a lot of support in Azure, but I don't see a lot of innovation on the data analytics side in AWS."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"IAM must be made simple and straightforward."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"Navigating the frequent changes in the interface has been a challenge, requiring effort to keep up with updates. Options or features that were once located in one window may unexpectedly move to another, making it hard to stay current with the changes."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
"I'd like to see better integration with S/4HANA integrated and other services, like monitoring, for example."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
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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