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.
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"The monitoring is the most valuable aspect of the product."
"We pretty much like everything and we are excited about the seamless capability the EC2 service is offering."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"AWS is easy to manage."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"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."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"We can easily access and integrate data sources from other platforms."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"We have a very good approach internally with what we have developed. It involved overcoming some hurdles regarding the single point of truth or single point of configuration, which is sometimes not that easy for AWS. There are dashboards and you have your web service, but bringing all these together and orchestrating is sometimes quite difficult."
"The price could be better. Support for data analytics could be better. I don't see much support for data analytics. They have a lot of support in Azure, but I don't see a lot of innovation on the data analytics side in AWS."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"Amazon support could be better."
"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."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
"The pricing in our region can be a bit high."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"I don't understand why we spend so much time and money on Azure when Microsoft relies on third-party companies for support in the CSP model. I don't know how the support model works within Microsoft, but giving it to poor-performing third-party companies is not ideal."
"In my opinion, what could be improved is making the actual costs more predictable. It is very difficult to estimate the cost or the budget you are going to need to run your environment in Azure Cloud. You have to be a specialist to understand how you will be charged, which constantly changes."
"While integrating services from different vendors, the perceived costs are high, with occasional confusion about specific charges, especially in data transfer scenarios between regions."
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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