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 scalability is a valuable feature."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"It is easy to use."
"AWS's containerization is the most useful feature for us."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"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."
"The ability to quickly create and manage resources is critical to getting things done, Azure just makes getting things done a lot simpler."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy."
"It very quickly provisions servers, infrastructure, and apps on the fly and complies with security requirements and data safety."
"The performance is good."
"The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"I think the price can be improved."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"If you have not had previous training or studied guides it will be a little difficult to use the solution. However, the difficulty also depends on what you are using the solution for. They can improve by providing more documentation, such as tutorials and videos."
"A person with no AWS experience might find it overwhelming at first."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"It is constantly updating. There are weekly releases, sometimes daily releases, and there should be fewer that are consolidated into one."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
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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