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 for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The solution has enabled us to provide advanced indicators and analytics to the client on their data."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"We've got multiple tools on Azure, which is a very good feature of Azure. Our Palo Alto firewall and other things are hosted in Azure. We're using Sentinel as well, which is a security tool that is being used by our SOC teams. I've also used AWS, and I find Azure to be more Windows-driven. Although Azure is newer as compared to AWS, it is growing fast. Microsoft is working towards the betterment of Azure."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"Being able to set up, change and configure VMs is easy - a lot easier than in AWS."
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"It would be better if there was a way to see which components were still on. We have some situations where I forget that some components are turned on. We forget some components are on, and we only see that these components are on when we see the bill at the end of the month. It would also be better if AWS had specialized firewalls or integrations with leading products. For example, a specialized firewall with content filtering. We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio. So, we are looking for other tools like FortKnox, Forcepoint, and Check Point because we didn't find the solutions in AWS services."
"It can be daunting because of the number of AWS products there are."
"I think the price can be improved."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"We need more security to be available on our smartphones and mobile devices."
"One area where Microsoft Azure could improve is in offering a broader range of pre-built plugins and tools compared to AWS."
"The installation process is complex."
"The solution could always work to reduce its costs."
"The solution's email hosting pricing could be improved."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"Quite an expensive solution."
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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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