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 has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"They provide cutting-edge features compared to other cloud vendors."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"Great features at a good price."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"The technical support has been good."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"Amazon tools are for more mature DevOps. The process and the Dev is very good, but it doesn't compare to the ease of using the Google Cloud Platform."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"It would be better if there was a way to see which components were still on. We have some situations where I forget that some components are turned on. We forget some components are on, and we only see that these components are on when we see the bill at the end of the month. It would also be better if AWS had specialized firewalls or integrations with leading products. For example, a specialized firewall with content filtering. We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio. So, we are looking for other tools like FortKnox, Forcepoint, and Check Point because we didn't find the solutions in AWS services."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"The security must be improved."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
"There needs to be better data security. There are organizations that do not want their data to be submitted to Microsoft, they should have strong encryption."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
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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