Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Comparison

The very easy to use user interface making it beginners friendly and also the use of inbuilt cloud shell making deployment much easier

Deployement of resources is bit slow as compared to other cloud service provider and the absence of dedicate machine learning tools which are present in google cloud platform

It's an excellent alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud. If you compete with either of these companies, or if you're hesitant about handing them all of your usage data, Azure is a great choice. Microsoft doesn't compete in many retail industries, so they're more of a neutral player.

It's a Microsoft product, so you're going to have unexplained glitches for which you'll need to contact support. It's more complex than Google Cloud or AWS, so you often can't troubleshoot the issues yourself.

Oh my gosh, this was so much easier than using Google Cloud

Trying to understand the GUI at first was kinda confusing, once i got the hang of it, it became a breeze

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A simple and great platform that provides top notch features and functionalities by Microsoft for development, testing and project management purposes. Built by Microsoft, automatically gives me complete trust on having our personal data shared on cloud and managing data for corporate internally or across teams. It is highly reliable, secure and scalable. It is ranked among the top 5 cloud services provided by the top company Microsoft. I would also love to appreciate the fact that my initial career started by using Azure services, creating resources, APIs, processing data over cloud using CosmosDB and much more, so I really appreciate the services provided.

Extremely expensive for every service and resource provided by Microsoft Azure. Strong competitor to GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Alibaba Cloud and AWS (Amazon Web Services) but not a real value for money when it comes to pricing of resources.

There are adding new functionalities all the time. A lot of different types of machines and services. Very good uptime. Some unique features, never seen in other infrastructure provider (Network Disk).

Poor customer service, sometimes our machines are reboot without any explanation or schedule. UI interface is better than Google Cloud but not better than AWS.

Its hybrid cloud capabilities allow seamless integration between cloud and on- premise environment. Plus, it is scalable so clients can adjust computing power and storage as per business needs

Even the price is quite competitive to its peers like AWS and google cloud, so I have not faced any challenges to quote on dislikes yet!

Lots of different offerings for everything from file storage to VPS hosting. Integrates directly in Visual Studio to seamlessly push code and databases into your Azure instance.

Very difficult to setup and use. The pricing seems to be quite a bit higher than other competing SAAP platforms such as Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

We only used the free version of this software, so the best part of it is definitely the price point. It has a lot of customization and options for our business needs too.

For us, I felt there was a lot of featured we didn't need/use since we are a smaller business (less than 50) and also we use Google Chrome as our main search engine within work, and this does not sync with our Google accounts.

i used many paid and free virtual machines like Azure,Amazon Cloud, google Cloud etc.. compared to all of them, azure is the best and reliable virtual machine. azure provide fast and secure connection with low cost.

for personal study purpose, azure is expensive. i know that students can use azure for free for some times, but it needs educational institution email address. but, its not free for personal use. if azure provide a free limited use for all, it will be the top feature of azure.

Me encante Google Cloud porque es el mejor aliado para el crecimiento empresarial, te permite al acceso a muchas herramientas con el que puedes crear experiencias inigualables para tus clientes, la gestion de tu empresa y otras tareas en particular. Sin importar el tamaño de tu empresa Google Cloud te proporciona una amplia gama de soluciones en todos los sectores, simplemente genial.

Se debe considerar que la configuración de las herramientas para evitar sobrecostos en la facturación. sin embargo, el servicio de atención al cliente son muy proactivos.

Highly scalable cloud platform.High level of security features.

Need a good cloud technical knowledge for users new to cloud computing.

We have been using the Azure platform for over a year. Most of our experts on working with virtual machines do not have much experience. But a lot of experience is not needed to work on Microsoft Azure, because even a novice can deploy a virtual machine. I believe that this is an ideal solution for small companies that cannot attract experienced professionals.

Microsoft Azure is not as popular as Google Cloud Platform or Amazon EC2, so there is little information on how to solve problems on the Internet. For help often have to contact support.

Excellent Google Cloud Hosting ExperienceReceived the best deal compared to other hosting companies, including unlimited SSD storage, high loading speeds, and hosting for an unlimited number of domains.

The only issue I have is the customer service response, it takes them time to respond. If only they can improve on this.

Its relatively easy to spin up an instance, they have a free tier for trials, best platform for windows support, very powerful machines available.

As an AWS/Google user I have found azure to be the least flexible cloud provider, I dislike the entire Microsoft ecosystem - hopefully the more they move towards open source the less of an issue this will be for me. Also their login system sucks compared to ones like google.

With the help of Microsoft Azure, our company can analyze the collected data and generate reports based on the results obtained. The use of cloud architecture allowed us to avoid problems with debugging our own equipment.

I want to warn small and medium-sized companies: take a look at other cloud platforms. for example, to the google platform. It is not as powerful as Azure, but it is much cheaper to maintain.

It is slightly cheaper than AWS or Google. Customer Support is good. Panel is easy to use and navigate around.

Frequent downtimes, server being down, hurting business and customer experience was the worst part about Azure. Also, when buying reserve instances, over bulk volumes, AWS or Google Cloud would be just as affordable with more secure platforms.

1. Easy to use & deploy.2. Remote access and remote control.3. Virtual machine management.4. Secure login & storage environment.5. Highly effective in load balancing.6. Remote update & installation feature is very helpful.7. Server & Network monitoring.

1. API configuration management is not upto the mark.2. Reporting & analytics are not available in detail.3. Network issues creates obstacles sometimes.

During my career I managed to work on the three most popular cloud platforms: Amazon Google and Azure. They are all good in their own way, but only Azure is ideal for large businesses.

The platform is suitable exclusively for large businesses. Microsoft Azure allows you to work with powerful virtual machines, but it is unlikely that small or even medium-sized businesses will be able to use resources to the maximum to recoup the cost of a subscription.

Their dashboard is quite complete and allows you to track everything easily.

The cloud services can be quite expensive.

Amazing how you can keep all in one place

Security and data protection in public cloud

they are trying to compete with Aws and google cloud but for my experience in ruby on rails they have tons of work to do. If you want to use a virtual machine, it works perfectly.

no real docker implementation for ruby on rails support.

We have been using Microsoft's cloud environment Azure for almost 4 years now. Azure provides a stable place where you can host all your cloud services. Our company primarily use its web hosting and mobile app services for creating of Web Services and Cordova applications. The Azure Portal ( what you see when you first log in) is very customization and provides links to your projects and services. There servers and very fast and we have no complaints even when the code we run is sometimes not optimized for speed. Their pricing is very agreeable and Azure works well with other Microsoft products. It makes development quite a breeze. It also works with third party services like Github to add addition features. The sheer scope and size of services available is mind boggling.

Azure you get what you pay for and while at the moment it meets our needs it can see to ramp up in price as you add more features and services. Also for some working with Microsoft might be a deal breaker

The available tools and GUI. It's been so nice to manage the cloud with those tools, that I simply forgot the CLI.

The backbone and network configurations are such a hard thing to deal with. Microsoft Azure support team for this kind of issue, are hard to reach and takes too much time to solve it.

The most important thing is that we need Azure to be viable in order to break the monopoly of AWS on public cloud providers. If we want to avoid massive price gouging and lock-in, Azure needs to serviceable. Thankfully Microsoft has worked hard in recent years to making Azure more developer and IT friendly. They were always great at providing hosted versions of Microsoft products such as MS Exchange,...

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Azure draws from the Microsoft visual style so if you navigating using the UI, it's a bit of a uneven experience. If you are used to Windows, this probably won't be too much of a problem. In many cases it takes too many clicks to get to the appropriate screen. However this is something that all cloud providers need to work on. While the marketplace is growing, the ecosystem support is not as robust as AWS. I would like to see MSFT partner with VMW to provide a similar offering to VMW on AWS.

Google CP includes a decent range of apps that can support most SMBs operations. It's relatively cheap and very stable. The apps quality and integration with a wide range of Google's free services such as Google Translate is a major plus.

Still not as widely applicable as the Microsoft Office365 and Azure platform. Google CP is almost entirely cloud dependent.

google cloud platform is most easy to use platform with respect to its competitors amazon aws and microsoft azure. and super quick to get started

google cloud is comparitivly costlier then amazon web services. also they dont have enough of features or as many features as aws does they need to add more services like sqs,redis and so on

The cleanest UI I've used from all the cloud providers I work with. It has a lot of pre-built instances with many integrations, making it easier to build images using just a few clicks.

Pricing is a bit high. There are cheaper alternatives on the market for the same computing power and capacity, like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.

Google Cloud's ability to not only use the GUI interface but also the CLI interface makes it extremely valuable.

The user interface is confusing for users coming from AWS or Microsoft Azure. There is a learning curve for people who are not familiar with CLI

Very trustful. Excellent backup for your files. It is impossible to lose them again, you will always proceed to transfer them and recover them from the cloud. Excellent interface. Synchronization is easily done on all my devices

The space has a limited capacity, additionally the price is a bit high. Microsoft Azure is a cheaper alternative in the market and with the same power

Simple Web Console to manage the account Per-Second billing has saved some dollars for our company, and this is something unique with google. 24/7 Support makes your life easier especially when you get into any unknown issues.

Expensive compared to its competitors AWS, Azure .etc

For setting up systems and getting people started, I prefer GCP.

Concerns about Google’s reliability in maintaining continuous service operations.

We use the Google Cloud Platform for streaming computing. There are no computers in our college that can quickly handle a large amount of data. For such tasks, the product from Google fits perfectly.

Linux virtual machines are inferior to similar Microsoft Azure machines in power and speed of data processing. I think this is due to the fact that the Google Cloud Platform uses a common core, and does not share the load between multiple cores.

Future use most of the company use this in future

Latest technology every company use this platform as well as azure etc

GCP is picking up speed and has better pricing options compare to AWS and Azure. many features are way better than aws and azure as well as have better interface too.

the pricing of some of the features are pretty expensive like data and compute.