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.
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"Serverless computing: This can be more cost-efficient just regarding computing resources than renting or purchasing a fixed quantity of servers, which involves periods of underutilization or nonuse."
"The pricing model is good. It's pay-as-you-go."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"We found the solution to be reliable."
"It's quite stable and scalable. The price is good as well."
"The most valuable feature is the backup ability. Most people are used to one type of backup solution that they're using, but most of these solutions have features that make it difficult to transfer to the cloud. I know that Veeam now gives people the opportunity to backup some on-premises solutions to the cloud. This feature is something that a lot of people are looking for."
"There are several products within Azure."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Access Management and the PIN modules."
"The solution has high stability."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"The product makes it easy to spin up new environments and develop new technologies."
"I know there have been a lot of improvements and a lot of new services lately. I'm really not aware of all of them."
"I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"The pricing is something you have to watch. You really have to constantly optimize your costs for instances and things like that. That can become a job in itself to manage just from a budgeting standpoint."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"One key area for improvement is the Azure load balancer. Currently, it only supports virtual machines (VMs) running in the same virtual network (vNet) on the backend. They should definitely support machines or IPs running on-premises (prem) or in other Azure VNets. GCP and AWS already support that. So, Azure Load Balancer should support that as well"
"The scalability could improve."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"With a Synapse environment, we might need to switch to Databricks for better scalability."
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, 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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