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.
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services."
"The storage on offer is excellent."
"The product is highly scalable."
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"Amazon has a much better understanding of the workflow of data scientists and machine learning processes. This is seen by their SageMaker which offers different versions of the models to be used."
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied."
"It's very stable and the performance is good."
"The incorporation of several kinds of storage, such as SSD Premium, enhanced the performance of machines."
"Microsoft Azure is flexible and the performance is great."
"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."
"The product scales extremely well."
"I like that it is user-friendly and flexible."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"It is a stable solution because it depends on the workload you expect. Based on that data, you can configure how many users it can handle."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"There is a bit of a learning curve. That said, it's likely no different than learning any other cloud."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"The scalability could improve."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
"The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"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."
Amazon AWS is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 40 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Offers integrated services and quickly spin up and shut down applications using EC2". 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 Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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