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."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The most valuable feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"Offers many data security features including securing network access."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"The availability could be better."
"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 response time of technical support could be better."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"It should be more secure and have more integrations."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support."
"The support subscription models need improvement."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"Support could be improved. If you pay for a higher plan, it's okay, however, the lower plans don't offer as good of a service experience."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"The pricing can be reduced."
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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