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."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"The compute and the elasticness of the compute is really great. Whenever there's a load, it automatically adds the servers and then reduces the servers based on the configuration. This is really wonderful, more cost-effective, and it's been really good for us."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"Microsoft Azure is built for scalability."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"I like a lot of features. For example, the Windows virtual solution has helped in such a way that our client-based application was converted into a web-based version through the use of the Windows Virtual Desktop."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"The stability has been excellent."
"While feasible, custom configuration will be more time consuming than standard."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"There have been some issues in the past when it comes to file integrations in AWS's cloud products. However, there are now alternative solutions out there that are helping to integrate them all."
"Improvements are needed in Azure to enhance integration tools and support for effectively migrating and managing third-party dependencies."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."
"The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"It could be more flexible. If you look at all Mircosoft products, they are not up to the mark. For example, Azure Ready doesn't provide the same kind of access a domain administrator has and the kind of flexibility that they have when using Active Directory. Microsoft support could be better. Their service could also be better. For example, specific policies for templates suddenly become unavailable. When I checked, they said that certain things might be withdrawn based on customer feedback. This happened once or twice, and it wasn't available at all for five days, it just went down."
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to 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 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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