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.
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"It is flexible. It is quite comfortable to use for organizations."
"It is intuitive, easy to deploy, and rather quick to deploy and set up. There are a number of native services in the ecosystem. These services are built into the cloud and are mature enough to support you in many ways."
"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."
"The scalability of the product is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"We like that you sign in only once and that grants access to all of the Microsft applications, as well as others such as ServiceNow and SAP Concur."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"There is the potential to scale."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"I know there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of new services lately. I'm really not aware of all of them."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"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 solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"The networking is overly complex."
"I'd like to see AWS implement consolidated billing for businesses operating under one group. We want to consolidate the functionalities but keep the billing separate. That is a challenge we've faced, and I feel it's something they can improve on. For example, maybe you have three businesses that are operating under one group, and you want each entity to have a separate bill for the respective workload that they're using."
"Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Could be more user friendly; security features should be improved."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
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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