It has everything that any company needs
Daniel, founder of Daniel Foley suggests that “Azure is still not in a complete stage and therefore cannot be compared at all to the beast that is AWS. It has everything that you need, without the need to worry about more updates coming in the future to disrupt your workflow. It has a real dominant market position that I do not see moving anytime soon. And with their extensive offerings, it cannot be matched with the incomplete Azure at this time. They offer support for larger organisations, perfect for companies who want to branch out in the future, or can see their success growing. They have a global reach, with a lot of training too. However, it can be difficult to use for first time users, and the costs need to be managed.”
It has straightforward approach to implement simple things
Chris Love, Owner of Love2dev suggests that “I think Microsoft has done a wonderful job creating and delivering machine learning and AI services, aka Cognitive Services. But I think many of the other services are behind or just missing compared to AWS.
I have strong Microsoft background, but around 5 years ago I became so frustrated with Azure I decided to give AWS a try. I was amazed at how much easier it was to do simple things required to build web applications. Since then Microsoft has improved, but still lags behind AWS.
AWS accelerates in the breadth of services available. I mean they have a service to manage your satellites and I mean what business doesn't need that! Seriously though there are many AWS services I use that either are not available in Azure or much more complicated to use.”
It is solid, stable, and secure
James Major, Owner and Founder of Insurance Panda suggests that “We looked at both AWS and Azure for our company. Ultimately, we went with AWS simply because we were more familiar with Amazon. We also received recommendations for AWS from multiple sources we trust.
AWS' platform is solid, stable, and secure. We're nearing 5 years of uptime so far with no disruption whatsoever. Due to the nature of our business, downtime is a big deal, so AWS' track record in keeping services online is crucial for us.
From my research, AWS is faster and more robust than Azure. The provisioning of AWS resources is also much faster when compared to Azure. Integration with third-party development tools is also much better with AWS.
When deciding which platform we were ultimately going to use, I spent hours looking at the documentation for each platform. AWS, I felt, had much better documentation than Azure.”
It has a larger community of qualified and experienced specialists
Gwen Rivet, Chief Marketing Officer at Bitdegree suggests that “From the user's point of view, there's no massive difference between AWS and Azure: the products each of them offers are often direct equivalents to the other's services, and the global coverage, while not absolute, is fairly sufficient in both cases. However, being the more experienced and more prominent player in the field, AWS has a larger community of qualified and experienced specialists, so going with it is definitely a smarter strategy for a company in terms of talent acquisition.”
It is perfectly suitable for IaaS provider
Israel Gaudette from Link Tracker Pro suggests that “Picking out a clear winner between AWS and Azure is just like deciding who to go with when your parents get divorced. You really don’t know until you’re presented with preferences. When I was working as a software developer, it usually took us 9 months to make just a simple new program. Out of it, 3 months is intended for the software development and the rest will be for making the machines running. But when we were asked to finish it in less than six months, AWS vs Azure debate happened. The main goal was to make the process faster. And our best option was to bypass IT and buy infrastructure from AWS - for a few hundred bucks extra cost. If the preferences were the other way around, we would have chosen Azure.
The bottom line, determining which is better between AWS and Azure all depends on your business’ requirements and workloads. If your main focus is to have a robust PaaS provider, then Azure is the better choice. But for a software development company that is looking for a various set of tools and is capitalizing on IaaS, then there’s no need to rethink and should choose AWS. Ultimately, the best thing to do here is to assess first what requirements are needed in “each” project then choose which one can deliver it better. To be precise, it’s a matter of choosing the right tool on the right project - independently.”
It built for enterprise-friendly environment
Andrew Ryan, Founder & Director CEO of Newtec Services suggests that “There is no one size fits all solution when it comes to AWS or Azure. In the past few years, AWS has been the crowd favorite for its widest range of functionality and most mature cloud offering. However, a Goldman Sacs technology survey was recently published that revealed many CIOs prefer to use Azure for public cloud services, despite AWS being the leader in the market in terms of revenue.
It's easy to see why CIOs prefer Azure. The Azure Management Portal makes collaboration easier between developers and IT pros, offering end-to-end integrated DevOps solutions. This is attractive to experts in the field.
That said, AWS is still the number one Cloud service provider for businesses in a wide range of fields, including software development companies. AWS is reliable and offers great customer service support, a low rate of data loss, and third party support and customization capabilities. All of its offerings are built to be enterprise-friendly. While there are pros and cons to both systems, we find that AWS is the way to go for many of our business clients.”