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.
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"The solution is useful for handling large amounts of data."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"It is a very straightforward solution that provides a wide range of services."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"Azure is stable. I don't have any problems with it."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"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."
"The solution can get to be a little expensive."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"Onboarding customers is a challenge. Sometimes our customers don't know how to deal with the cloud environment. Maybe the customers are more comfortable with the old-fashioned on-premise environment."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
"Performance could be improved."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."
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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