We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The installation is easy."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"This solution is stable and reliable."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"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 scalability is a valuable feature."
"We write a lot of Lambda functions for various services, as well as serverless functions."
"Its scalability is powerful. We are providing services for people to schedule an appointment for the vaccine and for COVID testing to see whether they are positive or negative. In one night, we can have 240,000 people in one minute to schedule an appointment. I am very happy with the scalability."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"It is easy to use and flexible."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The most important thing is we don't have to maintain any physical infrastructure. With typical conventional on-premise solutions, we have to maintain many things like the hardware, clusters, etc. With this cloud platform, you don't have to worry about all those things. We have the service always available, and this is the main advantage. I like that we use everything on our standard Active Directory on on-premises on Azure. The key advantage is that you can have the sole indication based on the cloud. This isn't possible with an on-premise Active Directory. This enables work from home and at the office because it's on the cloud."
"Good security, scalability, and elasticity."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."
"Users use websites as a tutorial. However, the Alibaba Cloud website has the content, and the scripts are copied from Amazon Web Services. We had received customer feedback where the customer asked us to get formulate original content instead of copying from Amazon Web Services. It’s very odd and awkward."
"It is not robust."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"The web console of AWS is not so user-friendly."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"It should be more secure and have more integrations."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"It could be more flexible. If you look at all Mircosoft products, they are not up to the mark. For example, Azure Ready doesn't provide the same kind of access a domain administrator has and the kind of flexibility that they have when using Active Directory. Microsoft support could be better. Their service could also be better. For example, specific policies for templates suddenly become unavailable. When I checked, they said that certain things might be withdrawn based on customer feedback. This happened once or twice, and it wasn't available at all for five days, it just went down."
"Maybe Microsoft could improve its monitoring around the networking."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."