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.
"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."
"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."
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"The most useful feature of Amazon AWS is it can be accessed from anywhere."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"Azure has improved my organization because it is a new technology and so the customers who don't have enough knowledge about the cloud delegate the administration of their cloud infrastructure to us. We incorporate and add a new service to our product lineup about how to manage their Azure. It impacts our business because we're able to incorporate this new service."
"Storage has made remote access to files much more painless and easy."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
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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