We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because Microsoft Azure has a more difficult initial setup and weaker support, Amazon AWS ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"The features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"The installation process is very simple."
"Technical support has been great."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"User friendly solution."
"This solution is a good option if you are looking for cloud-based storage. Using a cloud-based solution, it is not required to accommodate a full workload. You can start with a basic version and scale up as needed."
"AWS is constantly growing in features with every new version. It's a good cloud provider with excellent availability. The integration is good, and their security products are interesting. Amazon is always innovating and delivering new products to customers."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"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."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"It's set up to handle any cloud requirement."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"Great features at a good price."
"Offers many data security features including securing network access."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"There is a feature called Kinesis, which has to do with image processing. There are a few artificial intelligence tools that Amazon AWS should improve on."
"There is no control of downtime."
"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 pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
"Customer services and support should be improved. If a user faces challenges in accessing Microsoft Azure, the support team takes time—it could be 24 to 48 hours—to resolve them. We need solutions in four to five hours. And there are business-critical issues where we need an immediate resolution."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"There are multiple DevOps solutions and tools available in Microsoft Azure, but most of the time they are either in the build mode, meaning you don't get complete support for them because they are either making changes, or changing the names of the particular services. Sometimes, services vanish from the portal. We are not able to see that. I think they actually change the names of the services."
"The solution is less mature than AWS."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 109 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 110 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Flexible, scales well, and offers good stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Optimized cloud solution with reliable recovery and fail services". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, SAP Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Oracle Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, SAP Cloud Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and IBM Public Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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