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 features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The cloud storage based on S3 is one the most valuable services we have deployed since it allows us infinite scale in storage and extremely high durability."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"It's very user-friendly."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"AWS could be improved with more integration, but I can see that they're developing these features and working very hard on their platform."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a little pricey."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"I would like to see more advanced functionality in terms of information security."
"The support subscription models need improvement."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"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 third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
"I would want Microsoft Azure to provide some credits that can be used to test and validate Microsoft’s different solutions since it is an area where the product lacks."
"I think better accelerators and better tools that can be used to migrate and leverage the existing models and data schemas are needed."
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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