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's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"Its scalability is powerful. We are providing services for people to schedule an appointment for the vaccine and for COVID testing to see whether they are positive or negative. In one night, we can have 240,000 people in one minute to schedule an appointment. I am very happy with the scalability."
"It is easy to use."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"Easy to upgrade, easy to expand storage and change your EC2 types."
"Great scalability."
"The incorporation of several kinds of storage, such as SSD Premium, enhanced the performance of machines."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"The data factory feature."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"Good security, scalability, and elasticity."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"Compute (App service, and virtual machine scale sets): The ability to manage Windows and Linus virtual machines."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"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."
"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."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"IAM must be made simple and straightforward."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"It just needs to be improved from the security perspective."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
"The pricing criteria can be improved with broken-down terms that can be understood easily."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"Talking from a networking perspective, when you create a file or a rule in Azure and you want to view this IP group, sometimes the way it is displayed on the GUI, you don't see the name of the group."
"Azure calculator could be improved, there are issues with login synchronization."
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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