We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to set up."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"The installation is easy."
"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"
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"The performance is good."
"The pricing is quite good, and it is designed as pay-per-use."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"Offers many data security features including securing network access."
"The most valuable features I have found to be the auto-scaling feature and the interface."
"Azure is stable. I don't have any problems with it."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"It is not robust."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The solution should have more integration."
"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions."
"With Microsoft, our only concern is exchange rates because we're paying in dollars. It's very expensive for us because of the exchange rates. It would help if they partnered with someone locally so we can pay in our local currency."
"We use Microsoft Server 2019 and 2016. And I didn't like the 2019 client, so we had to downgrade back to 2016. The main issue there was its monitoring system. Our client needed an alternative, and if they were using more Windows products, they also needed to make that downgrade."
"Its pricing should be better. In terms of features, I am yet to explore the whole solution, and the current features seem okay."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support."
"The pricing needs to be a bit lower. It's an expensive solution right now."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 6 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 144 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "A flexible and affordable cloud solution, but customer support could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Optimized cloud solution with reliable recovery and fail services". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud and DigitalOcean, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, SAP Cloud Platform and VMware Tanzu Application Service. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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