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 best features are flexibility and cost."
"AWS's security model, including IAM or security groups, has contributed to our organization's compliance. It manages authentication, permissions, and overall security posture, which helps us maintain compliance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that they offer everything around in just one platform."
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"We use AWS for multiple purposes, such as developing APIs and API integration using API Gateway. We use API Gateway, Python Combinator, Lambda Glue, and ETL Process. We have used EMR for big data processing. If we need a tool for computing, we go with the Lamda DMS. There are many services available in AWS that meet our needs."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"Databricks is really nice because you have the power to process lots of data and you can create queries and provide big analysis for the business using a robust cluster."
"The stability has been excellent."
"The solution is stable."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"It is stable and collaborative."
"I think the single sign-on functionality and the ease with which you can deposit things on the cloud have been valuable. Azure has very robust security functionalities and authentication features, which come with mobility, along with backup and credential checks."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"We like that you sign in only once and that grants access to all of the Microsft applications, as well as others such as ServiceNow and SAP Concur."
"AWS support could be better."
"The price could be better."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"The solution needs a more integrated password feature."
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"One area for enhancement could be in the realm of big data and unstructured data storage."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"If the price were reduced then it would be an improvement."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
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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