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.
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"Its scalability is powerful. We are providing services for people to schedule an appointment for the vaccine and for COVID testing to see whether they are positive or negative. In one night, we can have 240,000 people in one minute to schedule an appointment. I am very happy with the scalability."
"Setting up AWS was pretty easy. It was straightforward to set up, and it took us a year to develop and migrate our mobile banking solution to the AWS cloud. Our migration experience was quite positive."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"Easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual machine."
"The valuable features of Microsoft Azure are that it is cloud-based and has good storage. The storage is completely managed by Azure. We do not need to do any patching of security because it is handled by Azure which is a benefit. The solution is fully compatible with the Microsoft technology stack and is very scalable."
"It is really scalable and easy to use."
"The solution is secure and easy to use."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"Storage has made remote access to files much more painless and easy."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"There is a bit of a learning curve. That said, it's likely no different than learning any other cloud."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"AWS for API, or Seller Central, is no improvement from what we had (our internal tools we designed to update accounts, change customer network profiles, monitoring, MRTG graphs, etc), when AWS should be blazing."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"The pricing needs to be a bit lower. It's an expensive solution right now."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
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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