Why will Microsoft Azure be a better choice than AWS in 2022?

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In this era, both industries and end-users utilize cloud sources and many industries are building their own value layers on top of the cloud. Industries use cloud computing to release new products faster, have high efficiency with lower operational costs, improve innovations, reduce capital expenditure, and more.?

This article will take you a little deep to analyze why tech giants expect Microsoft Azure to be a better cloud provider than AWS in the upcoming year. With the increase in Azure cloud, organizations expect Certified Azure Professionals to work for their Azure cloud. The Azure certifications will make the resource to utilize the cloud service at optimal cost. These days, it is essential for everyone to upgrade their Azure skills to get ready for the upcoming cloud technology change.

AWS Vs Azure

Cloud storage companies such as Azure, AWS, google are touching the lives of millions and making the world a better place. In 2002, AWS was launched and its earliest competitor is Google as Microsoft Azure was not launched in the market until 2010. When Azure was launched as a newbie in the cloud, it was supposed to fight with AWS which had already created more capital, more infrastructure, and better and more scalable services. But now both AWS and Azure are the major cloud players in the market because they are very good at what they provide in different ways.?

Microsoft Azure - The game starts to change?

Even though Azure entered very late in the market, it identified the business requirement and tactics. Through that, it has created many significant advances over the years, and now it offers a set of features and capabilities far surpassing its competitors. Microsoft quickly modernized all its services and offerings and supports different programming languages and operating systems. The Azure services are more scalable with Linux and make better use of economies of scale.?

These days, Azure is adding more servers in cloud infrastructure and extending its services on all platforms. This will make Azure one of the leading cloud providers in a very short period.

The cloud future - AWS or AZURE?

To identify the best public/private cloud service provider, you need to consider various factors into consideration, such as cloud storage pricing, data transfer loss rate, security and availability, and rates of data availability, among others.?

If you want to save money for cloud usage, you should select Azure service for your organization. Azure charges you on the basis of what you use (in a VM), then you are more likely to save money. Compared to AWS, Azure is 4-12% cheaper and it enables the new offers which make it better than AWS.

Top reasons why Azure is better than AWS?

PaaS Capabilities - Azure provides stronger and faster PaaS capabilities than AWS which is a more important part of Cloud infrastructure. The Azure environments, tools, and building blocks give the possibility to developers to create and deploy new cloud services quickly. With Azure DevOps availability, you can perform monitoring, managing those apps.

Integrated Environment - Azure’s integrated ecosystem supports testing, developing, and deploying Cloud apps together. Azure’s flexible toolset will provide the integration ranging from connecting mobile apps with on-premises LOB systems to coordinating B2B payments with partners

?Enterprise Agreement - If you are an existing user of Microsoft Azure cloud, then you should have an ‘Enterprise Agreement’ with Microsoft. Using this you can lower the Azure pricing by utilizing discounts. Thus, with the enterprise agreement, enterprises can typically obtain significant incentives for using Azure.

.Net Compatibility - Azure has a clear upper hand over AWS in the form of its compatibility with the .Net programming language. With these .Net frameworks, Azure can build and optimize applications consistently and it will be easy for industries to move their Windows apps to Azure Cloud.?

Security Offerings - Azure security functions are designed based on the industry-leading assurance process? Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). So all operations and data on the Azure Cloud should be protected more properly than AWS. Microsoft was the first cloud vendor to be approved by the European Union’s data protection authorities.

Hybrid solutions - Unlike AWS, Azure has built hybrid apps which can utilize the resources available within data centers, at the service provider’s end, or within Azure itself. Azure already placed its hybrid capabilities while Amazon is still testing the same.

Which one is better? AWS or Azure?

For any organization, it is very important to select the right cloud vendor for their applications. Microsoft Azure provides a hybrid solution, PaaS, and an array of other beneficial features than AWS, which are important for any Cloud strategy today.??

?There are many industries that improved their business growth by migrating to Azure and around 365,000 new companies adopt Microsoft Azure every year. As an end result, Microsoft Azure comes to the fore as a considerably better choice in 2022 compared to AWS. As Azure will get rapid growth, there will be a huge demand for Azure Certified Professionals in the upcoming year.

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Mahad S.

Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft | Azure | AWS | terraform | CKA | OCI | Linux | Python | CI/CD | Splunk | AI enthusiast

2 周

This sounds very bias to me. It’s not a one size fits all thing. Really when it comes down to it, it all depends on what the companies get out of one over the other. If you was to ask me I’d go with AWS as I worked in Azure before and I must say AWS has more to offer and shows I big difference when it comes to pricing.

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Alban Xhaferllari

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

1 年

I do not mind switching to Azure, but the main issue I notice when I created the infrastructure was that for the same region, same connection, same configuration, the network response time of Azure was 3-4 times slower compared to AWS, for a simple Web App api call

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Vagharshak Baghdasaryan

DevOps / Platform Engineer @ MOIA

2 年

So, I think Azure is on a good way, but there is still to early to generally speak about beeing "better choice" - if such a general discussion makes sense at all. There are maybe parts, where Azure was a pioneer (like Hybrid Cloud / Backup as a Service option) / still "better". But, again, AWS has catched up here in the last year(s). To be short: I am not a friend of such generalizations, like "X is better choice, than Y" in the context of cloud providers.

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Vagharshak Baghdasaryan

DevOps / Platform Engineer @ MOIA

2 年

And, from developers, DevOps and software architects point of view, AWS is still much more cool / flexible, than Azure (at least for me). Just take f.E. the bunch of lifecycle hooks of AWS Auto Scaling Group or AWS Codedeploy, allowing a plenty of different useful automations - nothing similar in Azure. Or FaaS: in AWS, Codedeploy + Lambda allows you easily configure very granular types of canary, blue-green and gradual deployment, like "shift 10 percent of traffic every three minutes until all traffic is shifted". In Azure, you have deployment slots, but must tweak a lot to allow configuration, like mentioned above. And, finally, regarding market participation, AWS is still the leader in 2022 with 33% (Microsoft Azure 21% and Google Cloud 8%): https://www.channele2e.com/news/cloud-market-share-amazon-aws-microsoft-azure-google/, https://www.statista.com/statistics/967365/worldwide-cloud-infrastructure-services-market-share-vendor/#:~:text=In%20the%20first%20quarter%20of,with%20eight%20percent%20market%20share.

Vagharshak Baghdasaryan

DevOps / Platform Engineer @ MOIA

2 年

Sorry, but this is not really a consideration, based on deep analysis and comparison of both clouds. This looks just like a superficial and subjective meaning of somebody, who is deep within Azure and loves that technology. I done both, and can not understand the statement about "Azure is cheaper". From my experience, the opposite is the case in many situations. Take for instance AWS API Gateway vs Azure API Management. Very similar scope of features, but AWS API Gateway is much more cheap, because serverless. MSFT can be very appealing for (non-hightech) big / medium companies, especially ones already relying on MFST software. But big (high-tech) companies, like Netflix, Adobe, Airbnb, Intel, Citrix, LG, Nike, MacDonalds, Disney etc. etc .are using massively AWS (https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/biggest-aws-users-nikhil-suryawanshi/).

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