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.
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The reason I like AWS is that they have a large market share and a large presence. When it comes to our use case, a big positive is that MuleSoft and AWS are working together very well. So instead of competing against each other, they're meshing together."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"We find Azure particularly beneficial when working with clients who are heavily invested in Microsoft solutions. It necessitates that we also leverage Azure for our solutions and services."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"The product has been quite stable."
"I also use Google Cloud GCP and AWS cannot directly use the Azure EC2 consult. They could add that feature. Direct connection to the EC2 console server would be very useful."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"The customization could improve. However, it depends on the customization needed."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"Predictability and quality. Make sure things work predictable, as expected, and documented."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"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."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
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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