We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure 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 amount of bandwidth has been most valuable."
"I can quickly create a VM instance with just one click."
"Stable, scalable, and simple to implement."
"My company uses the tool for cloud monitoring. We have a production, staging, deployment, and testing environment in AWS. However, we do not use the managed service of AWS yet. My team uses the required parameters for security like VPC, firewall, gates of security as well as the external layer of the app."
"The product helps us with scalability. We also need not have data centers."
"The most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"It is really scalable and easy to use."
"Azure's Data Lake services are decent. I like AKS, and API Management is relatively straightforward to use. The security and SIEM options Azure offers are good. All the infrastructure services are easy to use and set up."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"The solution is secure and easy to use."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"Databricks is really nice because you have the power to process lots of data and you can create queries and provide big analysis for the business using a robust cluster."
"Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs."
"Current inability to change the resource service levels."
"The initial deployment was complex."
"They have to provide clarity on pricing. It's not transparent."
"Regional acceleration could improve. If I am hosting a website and I want the experience to be faster they should have this feature to allow for increased speeds."
"We're expecting to have Graviton instances. Graviton means it's not internal, it's a low-cost instance. At present time, Graviton is not supported for a few packages."
"The support could be more responsive."
"There should be enhanced accessibility from any standpoint. The accessibility should be increased, particularly in scenarios where accessing the software on the Azure platform from the cloud can be complex. Simplifying this process would be beneficial. There are too many steps involved."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"The solution is too expensive."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 58 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. 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 Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch and Apache NiFi, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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