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.
"A scalable and secure product"
"It's very user-friendly."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"The product's scalability is good."
"The AWS feature that I most enjoy is Lambda functions. I primarily use serverless components because they allow you to process things without having to compromise on resources like when running EC2 instances or virtual machines. With minimal effort, you can scale up an unlimited number of processes, even concurrently, to process things. I frequently work with web APIs, so I use Lambda a lot in this area."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the S3."
"Amazon is a really good solution with high performance. They offer more connectors than some of their competitors, such as Microsoft Azure."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"The ability to scale down is a big thing."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"One area that could be improved is in data management. They could improve on the data side. For example, I see others with better cloud services and larger data computing capabilities."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The availability could be better."
"The pricing is expensive"
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"The scalability could improve."
"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."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"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."
"We use Microsoft Server 2019 and 2016. And I didn't like the 2019 client, so we had to downgrade back to 2016. The main issue there was its monitoring system. Our client needed an alternative, and if they were using more Windows products, they also needed to make that downgrade."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
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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