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.
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"The cutting-edge design is valuable."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Scalability is one of the biggest benefits we have."
"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."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"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."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"It is easy to deploy."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"The product should reduce carbon emissions."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"This solution could be improved by a better licensing model, especially for third-party software. Amazon AWS could also potentially be improved by more free storage, but I think that it's okay when compared to competitors' products."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"There should be be better support for microservices and containers."
"It would be helpful if it offered more integration with other platforms."
"The scalability could improve."
"I would want Microsoft Azure to provide some credits that can be used to test and validate Microsoft’s different solutions since it is an area where the product lacks."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"I think better accelerators and better tools that can be used to migrate and leverage the existing models and data schemas are needed."
"Performance could be improved."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
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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