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.
"User friendly solution."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"The best features are flexibility and cost."
"We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"Cloud Management has been a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"The product makes it easy to spin up new environments and develop new technologies."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"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."
"It could be made cheaper. I know we spend a lot of money each month on AWS."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage."
"The installation process is complex."
"Some of the capabilities available in an on-premise SQL Server aren't available in Azure. For instance, we found Azure Managed Instance to be lacking in certain aspects. One of our clients decided to stay on-premise rather than migrate to Azure because of this reason."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"Performance could be improved."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
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, Red Hat 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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