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."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"The services that we are using have frequent updates, at least twice a year. They provide a new version that has more capabilities or features that fit our process and procedures."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"A scalable and secure product"
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services."
"I know there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of new services lately. I'm really not aware of all of them."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"There is the potential to scale."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"The features that should be improved are that there should be better clarity on their invoicing. There are so many things they charge for - high line items in the invoice. I think there should be more clarity and more ease of use with their billing. I'd like to see better ease of use of with the billing console and a clear dashboard to understand the usage."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"We like everything about the solution except for the general price."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"The solution could use mutual segmentation for servers. It would be ideal if you could constitute something like five or 15 groups among the groups of different computers inside Azure."
"They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems. They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"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."
"The product's initial setup process and stability need improvement."
"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."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Microsoft Azure is not always a user-friendly solution. There are too many people who develop this solution. For the end-users, sometimes it's not really fun to use or simple to use. It could be improved."
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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