We compared Azure Stack and AWS Outposts based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Azure Stack and AWS Outposts both offer seamless integration with their respective cloud environments, advanced security features, and competitive pricing options. However, Azure Stack users praise its excellent customer service and support, while AWS Outposts users emphasize its flexibility, scalability, and data control. Azure Stack users value its hybrid cloud integration and security, while AWS Outposts users appreciate its local cloud capabilities and efficient deployment process.
Features: Azure Stack is highly valued for its seamless integration with Azure cloud, consistent hybrid cloud environment, and advanced security. Meanwhile, AWS Outposts is praised for its seamless integration with existing AWS infrastructure, local cloud capabilities, and enhanced data control. Additionally, users appreciate AWS Outposts' flexibility and scalability, ease of management, and efficient deployment process.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Azure Stack is reasonable and users don't encounter unexpected expenses. The licensing process is straightforward. On the other hand, AWS Outposts is also considered to have reasonable setup costs and users find the setup process easy and simple., Azure Stack: Positive ROI reported by users, with benefits including improved scalability, flexibility, security, cost savings, integration with Azure services, ease of deployment, and optimized workflows. AWS Outposts: Positive ROI reported by users, with benefits including improved operational efficiency, cost savings, scalability, flexibility, and meeting specific business needs.
Room for Improvement: Azure Stack has room for improvement in terms of its user interface, documentation, performance and stability, available services and features, and collaboration and support options. On the other hand, user feedback suggests that AWS Outposts also requires enhancements for a better user experience.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Azure Stack and AWS Outposts show that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can vary among users. However, some users of Azure Stack mentioned needing a week for both deployment and setup, while users of AWS Outposts reported spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup., Azure Stack has been praised for its excellent and prompt customer service, providing assistance and resolving issues quickly. Users appreciate the knowledgeable and helpful support team. On the other hand, AWS Outposts also receives positive feedback for their prompt and effective customer support, with users appreciating the responsiveness and helpfulness of the support team.
The summary above is based on 32 interviews we conducted recently with Azure Stack and AWS Outposts users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Outposts allows you to isolate your private environment from the public cloud provider while enabling almost all the features that are available on public cloud services. That is the beauty of this service. It's an infrastructure that you can put in your data center and seamlessly connect to the public cloud."
"With AWS, we've had seamless integration and support for many of our applications."
"I think the keys to success for the solution is the easy-to-use user interface and the fact that the development team really likes the platform."
"The most valuable aspect is that it comes in a rack form factor which makes it incredibly easy to use and deploy various AWS services."
"AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and API to our on-premises data center or co-location facilities."
"If you compare with the full bundle of these services, you can see the difference. This is enough for these locations in private data centers. Because the main reasons why the customers want to have it on their side are for the low latency and the security of their critical data."
"The most valuable aspect is its ability to provide interfaces for events."
"It has every feature that we need and overall, it's pretty good."
"From my experience, this solution is suitable for enterprise companies."
"The admin dashboard is the main feature of the solution."
"We have found the Kubernetes version is one of the key components which we are using heavily."
"It's a good and cost effective solution for any organization. We can deploy the tech solution on premises and also in the cloud."
"The setup is very straightforward and it's quite stable."
"Azure Stack integrates well with Microsoft. It's also good for transitioning from an on-premise or hybrid setup to the cloud. It's seamless."
"This solution is highly scalable, with both direct and indirect users numbering over fifty thousand within my business."
"Also, it would be beneficial if AWS allowed for more granular and customizable pricing options."
"Outposts supports elastic coordinator services, but not elastic container services, which is the native service for containers in AWS. That is something missing in this product."
"The pricing model needs improvement because right now it's very expensive. All of these solutions are very expensive and it prevents other customers or owners of data centers from buying it."
"The platform needs to spend more time investing in strengthening its governance and information tools and consider the real needs of its customers."
"It would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion."
"Depending on the installation process, we have found some bugs and issues with the solution when the same platform is not used."
"It would be great if it could support Glue services."
"The solution's price is high, and the implementation process is difficult. I would like to see a lower price and simpler implementation for Azure Stack."
"The challenge in Azure Stack begins at an individual level when you try to monitor every service from Azure Stack that gets consumed."
"It does not give you a complete, production-ready setup."
"As opposed to AWS, Azure is a costly solution. It's on par with AWS more than anything else."
"It might be beneficial if Microsoft could introduce a more cost-effective data lake feature within their product."
"We face some challenges with database rebuilding."
"I would like to see better support for containers."
"I feel that Azure Stack has so many different variables which are not very clear...In general, the initial setup phase of Azure Stack is an area with concern that needs improvement."
AWS Outposts is ranked 4th in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 7 reviews while Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 60 reviews. AWS Outposts is rated 8.8, while Azure Stack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Outposts writes "Has the ability to provide interfaces for events and allows you to work both offline and online". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". AWS Outposts is most compared with Google Anthos, VMware Cloud Foundation and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), whereas Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VMware Software Defined Data Center. See our AWS Outposts vs. Azure Stack report.
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