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.
"It integrates well."
"The installation process is very simple."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution can scale well."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"The solution scales very nicely."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"If you're interested in going with Microsoft, my advice would be to do it. Everybody's using Microsoft."
"Easy to deploy services"
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"SQL Server has been most beneficial for our client’s workload."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"You'll probably experience some sticker shock with AWS. You attempt to understand the cost, but you don't realize what you're paying until you get your first bill. I don't know if Amazon does that on purpose, but costs can get out of control quickly if you don't have someone who specializes in AWS cost management."
"They're really good on the business computing side, but there are other services where they can do really well. They can improve the data analytics platform and the data warehousing platform."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The networking is overly complex."
"The alerts management should be improved. Alerts management is very complicated to configure. You have to go through a lot of tests and config action groups to set up those things. It is very complicated, and it can be simplified."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"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."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"I think it would be good to keep making progress on giving users the ability to do action calls on Data Factory. Right now, it's mostly local. Perhaps Microsoft could add the ability to put some calls in the workflow."
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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