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.
"AWS has large community support."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"The most useful feature of Amazon AWS is it can be accessed from anywhere."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"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."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"The product is a cloud solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The monitoring features are very good."
"It's very scalable. We can scale up to 80-85% without issues."
"The main benefit of Microsoft Azure is that it is cloud-based. We are using Microsoft Visual Studio for our code and it is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"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."
"The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"I think that the interface could be improved."
"Amazon AWS could improve on security."
"They should implement the command shell by default. As it is now, to open the console, you have to download the command application."
"The networking is overly complex."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"It should have cost optimization tools. Customers are required to use third-party applications to avoid usage complications."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"The solution could use mutual segmentation for servers. It would be ideal if you could constitute something like five or 15 groups among the groups of different computers inside Azure."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
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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