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.
"They integrate well with various other solutions."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"Almost everything is good. It is a whole ecosystem. It is not only the storage, computing, or networking. It is interesting in the way all things are combined to form this ecosystem. It is a very well-built and logical ecosystem that has some small building blocks. These building blocks can be used in the right way to build a much bigger ecosystem that is robust, secure, scalable."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"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."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"In terms of additional features we'd like to see, the one thing that comes to mind is better integration with Oracle. We have a lot of Oracle databases, and there is no other option to either migrate to PaaS, stay on-prem, or use Oracle Private Cloud."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"There is room for improvement in cost. Everyone complains about AWS being expensive. The initial cost starts small but can skyrocket unexpectedly."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"The installation process is complex."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"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."
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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