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.
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect is its ability to provide interfaces for events."
"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."
"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 solution's technical support is great since, in our company, we get answers to most of our questions, and most of our queries get resolved with the help of the documentation itself."
"If a user wants to upgrade Office 365 from any of the packages, there is no disruption happening during migration, and the data is kept safe. There's no loss of data."
"Azure Stack is very stable."
"Azure Data Factory is a great solution for orchestration."
"The initial setup is very, very simple."
"Azure Stack is like a hybrid model with a CI/CD pipeline. The IaaS and PaaS model works well with a hybrid type of connectivity."
"It is helpful from a security point of view because we can create our own isolated, private environments that contain virtual networks, and we can put security rules in place."
"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."
"It would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion."
"Also, it would be beneficial if AWS allowed for more granular and customizable pricing options."
"Depending on the installation process, we have found some bugs and issues with the solution when the same platform is not used."
"The platform needs to spend more time investing in strengthening its governance and information tools and consider the real needs of its customers."
"In the future, I would like to see more machine learning features."
"One aspect that I consider a drawback is the cost associated with Azure Stack, as its deployment expenses tend to be on the higher side compared to other solutions."
"The setup for Azure becomes more complex when you have multiple users and multiple organizations using the same solution, but this is to be expected."
"Technical support is very poor. When we meet Microsoft in the coming weeks to discuss expansion, we'll be speaking to them directly about this."
"The user experience could be improved to make it more comfortable."
"Azure Stack is relatively new and lacks the features compared to public Azure."
"Azure Stack doesn't have all the services available in Microsoft Azure."
"The fact that it is completely integrated into Azure, while positive, is also a downside."
AWS Outposts is ranked 4th in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 6 reviews while Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 56 reviews. AWS Outposts is rated 8.6, 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, VMware Software Defined Data Center and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our AWS Outposts vs. Azure Stack report.
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