We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
"Being able to set up, change and configure VMs is easy - a lot easier than in AWS."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"Performance could be improved."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google App Engine and Pantheon, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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