We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Azure Stream Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."The scalability and elasticity are helpful."
"The greatest benefit of Amazon EC2 is its versatility, including the diverse range of servers available and the ability to connect to various resources."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"The product helps us with scalability. We also need not have data centers."
"The product is easy and quick to set up."
"I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."
"The most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized."
"EC2 is secure and stable, and we have no complaints about it on AWS."
"We find the query editor feature of this solution extremely valuable for our business."
"I like all the connected ecosystems of Microsoft, it is really good with other BI tools that are easy to connect."
"The life cycle, report management and crash management features are great."
"Real-time analytics is the most valuable feature of this solution. I can send the collected data to Power BI in real time."
"I like the IoT part. We have mostly used Azure Stream Analytics services for it"
"We use Azure Stream Analytics for simulation and internal activities."
"It's scalable as a cloud product."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to create a query using SQ."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the console view. The ability to see the console view directly would be helpful, similar to what VMware has. Additionally, when the system is rebooting we are able to see a screenshot of the UI, but it would be a lot better if we could interact directly with the console level."
"The customization could be simplified."
"The product needs to improve its cost management."
"Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs."
"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."
"Support doesn't share or give insights on OS-based issues. That needs to improve because if someone is buying an EC2 instance with the Windows server and SQL license, the client expects that there will be a minimum level of support."
"Early in the process, we had some issues with stability."
"Sometimes when we connect Power BI, there is a delay or it throws up some errors, so we're not sure."
"Easier scalability and more detailed job monitoring features would be helpful."
"It is not complex, but it requires some development skills. When the data is sent from Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI, I don't have the access to modify the data. I can't customize or edit the data or do some queries. All queries need to be done in the Azure Stream Analytics."
"Its features for event imports and architecture could be enhanced."
"One area that could use improvement is the handling of data validation. Currently, there is a review process, but sometimes the validation fails even before the job is executed. This results in wasted time as we have to rerun the job to identify the failure."
"The solution’s customer support could be improved."
"The collection and analysis of historical data could be better."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while Azure Stream Analytics is ranked 3rd in Streaming Analytics with 22 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Azure Stream Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Stream Analytics writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly, but could be priced better". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch and Apache NiFi, whereas Azure Stream Analytics is most compared with Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, Amazon MSK, Apache Flink and Apache Spark.
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