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.
"I think the AWS interface is good. It's easy to understand and use."
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The performance of AWS is excellent."
"This solution is a good option if you are looking for cloud-based storage. Using a cloud-based solution, it is not required to accommodate a full workload. You can start with a basic version and scale up as needed."
"They integrate well with various other solutions."
"It is quite easy to provision new virtual services for our use. The procedures are quite straightforward and simple as compared to other competitors, such as Microsoft or Huawei. This is what we are happy about with Amazon AWS. It is pretty mature in terms of the availability of most of the infrastructure components. If you want to deploy a server on your platform, everything is already there in terms of the operating system, network components, securities, and data encryption. It is also quite scalable and stable."
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"Azure virtual machines are stand-out."
"User interface and portal are great."
"The performance is good."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"I have found all the features to be good."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"The solution has high stability."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"The product would be better if it was more secure."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"AWS has room for improvement on the Kubernetes side. I would like to go a little deeper into the Kubernetes target, Elastic, inner system, and all that. The EKS, target, and all these areas need to be improved, but that is not my key area because I am mostly working on the application side."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"The interface could be improved."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"With a Synapse environment, we might need to switch to Databricks for better scalability."
"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."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
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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