We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."The most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."
"I like the AMI-related features. A very good feature of this solution is the customizable AMI. It is a very good feature provided by Amazon. The encryption technologies are also very good. We are using KMS, etc."
"The scalability of the solution is fantastic. It's one of our favorite features."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"The greatest benefit of Amazon EC2 is its versatility, including the diverse range of servers available and the ability to connect to various resources."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"The technical support has been good."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"I think Azure's level of automation to achieve efficiency or agility is valuable. I also like the change capability cadence, the showback capabilities, and understanding what our costs are."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"Its price can be reduced."
"I would like to see more variety in the operating system images used to create test environments in EC2. There should be more versions and releases. Sometimes, you want to test an update from an old release to a higher version, but you can’t do that with the new images available. You have to use your own."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"The ease of migrating applications could be improved."
"The tool’s stability could be better."
"The scalability could improve."
"They should fix the key pair name functionality and provide the ability to assign multiple key pair names to an EC2 instance. It is a key pair feature, and it provides you the ability to actually log into the server. It is basically like a password. In terms of new features, it should have the ability to increase and decrease the instance size based on certain times of the day. We should be able to do this without turning off the EC2 instance. Currently, you have to turn it off and then turn it back on. It should also have HTTPS or SSL integration."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
"For deploying multiple resources in a big number, such as in hundreds, we need a streamlined process and more user-friendly scrips. The scripts have to be more user-friendly, and they should also supply some standard templates to deploy multiple resources at a time. Currently, it is very easy to deploy a couple of resources, but if you want to deploy multiple resources, it becomes complex. The material that they provide for integration with an existing on-prem data center is complex. They have to make them user-friendly. The scripts related to resource management need to be simplified."
"Onboarding customers is a challenge. Sometimes our customers don't know how to deal with the cloud environment. Maybe the customers are more comfortable with the old-fashioned on-premise environment."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems. They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, Apache NiFi and AWS Batch, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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