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.
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"I like the technical support."
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"The payment structure is very good."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Easy to deploy services"
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"The scalability is good."
"It very quickly provisions servers, infrastructure, and apps on the fly and complies with security requirements and data safety."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"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."
"I think the price can be improved."
"The billing should be more competitive."
"In terms of technical features, I don't see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS."
"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."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"Support response times can be improved, especially in areas where faster assistance is crucial."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Performance could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"Improving transparency in billing is crucial for us. Understanding how billing works only becomes clear once we start using the services. A more accurate billing calculator would help us anticipate costs associated with using specific services."
"The cost calculation for the services can be an unclear aspect which makes it difficult to estimate the expenses incurred accurately."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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