Personal Experience on Azure vs AWS for the IoT War.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azure IoT Hub is used by several clients within my organization, the latest project is about telemetry data from sensors installed in cars allowing easy connection and registration at the scale of new sensors, managing them, and redirecting the data to other services of the business workflow. The Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is very intuitive and easy to use, this is why is our to-go service for handling several IoT devices.
Pros
- Massive registration and deployment of new devices.
- Easy integration with other Azure services.
- Handling security if devices.
Cons
- It's usually more expensive than its competitors.
- More restrictions and limitations for registering IoT Devices.
- Documentation is confusing, compared to AWS IoT.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Azure IoT Hub for the energy industry and for massive scaling, maintaining security, and easy management of devices. It could be less suited from my point of view to small IoT projects due to the steeper learning curve.
