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 price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"The solution can scale well."
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure is the flexibility you have for all the services and solutions it offers, even if you use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, you have the option to only pay for the services you use."
"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on with multifactor authentication."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The use of this tool should be extended to Google and Apple operating systems."
"IAM must be made simple and straightforward."
"The price could be better."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"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."
"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"Navigating the frequent changes in the interface has been a challenge, requiring effort to keep up with updates. Options or features that were once located in one window may unexpectedly move to another, making it hard to stay current with the changes."
"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."
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 298 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 OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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