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 solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"I have found the trusted advisor tool works well, we are using it to get some insight into the security status and the processing of the applications."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"AWS is stable."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"Its ability to scale is most valuable. There are certain periods of the year when we are busier, and we're able to scale up and scale down with Azure depending upon our needs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"The feature that we like best is integration with Active Directory."
"It is easy to install."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"In some areas, more transparency on what is persistent towards novice users."
"Its subscription model or pricing model is too complex, which should be improved."
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
"If the price were reduced then it would be an improvement."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"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."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"We have faced some issues on the pricing side, but it has improved lately. We are trying to adjust to the new pricing methods that they are using now. It should be better from now on."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."
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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