AWS vs Microsoft Azure Cloud Comparison

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Verdict

Service breadth
AWS
AWS offers 235 services across 14 categories, vs 197 across 14.
Price posture
Tied
Pricing splits evenly across 4 directly comparable services.
Compliance
Tied
Both providers hold 13 tracked certifications.
Global reach
AWS
AWS operates 15 regions across 6 continents, vs 12.
Health index
Tied
Both providers score similarly on our health index (97 vs 98 / 100).

Choose AWS if you need the widest catalog of services, or global region coverage is critical.

Choose Microsoft Azure if you need one of its 140 services without an equivalent on the other side.

Pricing figures on this page: all verified since 192d ago (oldest displayed price).

Quick Comparison

MetricAWSMicrosoft Azure
Founded 2006 2010
Headquarters Seattle, USA Redmond, USA
Market Share 29% 22%
Active Services 235 197
Regions 15 12
Latest Revenue $100B $75B

Services by Category

37
AI/ML
34
13
Analytics
15
29
Compute
30
13
Database
13
22
Developer Tools
23
9
IoT
7
29
Management
19
12
Media
1
11
Messaging
7
9
Migration
2
15
Networking
18
7
Other
6
22
Security
10
7
Storage
12
AWS Microsoft Azure

Equivalent Services (52)

Service TypeAWSMicrosoft Azure
Virtual Machines Amazon EC2 from $0.0052/hour Virtual Machines from $0.004/hour
Managed Kubernetes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) from $0.0015/hour Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from $0.0122/hour
Container Instances AWS Fargate Azure Container Instances from $0.000879/100 units
Container Registry Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Azure Container Registry
Batch Processing AWS Batch Batch
App Platform (PaaS) AWS Elastic Beanstalk App Service
Spot/Preemptible VMs Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Azure Spot Virtual Machines
VMware Cloud VMware Cloud on AWS Azure VMware Solution
Quantum Computing Amazon Braket Azure Quantum
Object Storage Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) from $0.0025/1M Objects Azure Blob Storage from $26.00/1M GiB/hours
Block Storage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Azure Disk Storage
File Storage Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) from $0.008/GB/month Azure Files
Archive Storage Amazon S3 Glacier Archive Storage
Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway Azure Storage Mover
Managed PostgreSQL Amazon Aurora from $0.0730/hour Azure Database for PostgreSQL from $0.0100/hour
In-Memory Cache Amazon ElastiCache from $0.0034/1M Elasti Cache Processing Units Azure Managed Redis
Database Migration AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Azure Database Migration Service
Speech-to-Text Amazon Transcribe from $13.00/1M seconds Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
Translation Amazon Translate from $15.00/1M Characters Azure Translator in Foundry Tools
Computer Vision Amazon Rekognition from $10.00/1M Users-Mos Azure Vision in Foundry Tools
Chatbot / Conversational AI Amazon Lex from $0.00075/request Azure AI Bot Service
Document Processing Amazon Textract from $0.0006/Pages Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
DNS Service Amazon Route 53 from $0.2000/1M Queries Azure DNS
Virtual Private Network Amazon VPC Virtual Network
CI/CD Pipeline AWS CodePipeline Azure DevOps
Source Code Repository AWS CodeCommit Azure Repos
Monitoring & Observability Amazon CloudWatch from $0.0100/1M Samples Scanneds Azure Monitor from $10.00/1M units
Cost Management AWS Cost Explorer Microsoft Cost Management
Private Connectivity / Direct Connect AWS Direct Connect Azure ExpressRoute
Data Lake AWS Lake Formation Azure Data Lake Storage
Code Build Service AWS CodeBuild Azure Pipelines
PrivateLink / Private Endpoints AWS PrivateLink Azure Private Link
Data Sharing AWS Data Exchange Azure Data Share
Cloud Advisor / Recommendations AWS Trusted Advisor Azure Advisor
Ledger / Immutable Database Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) Azure confidential ledger
SIEM / Threat Detection Amazon GuardDuty Microsoft Sentinel
Digital Twins AWS IoT TwinMaker Azure Digital Twins
Serverless Functions AWS Lambda from $0.0309/1M GB-seconds Azure Functions from $4.00/1M GB-seconds
Managed Relational Database Amazon RDS from $0.0170/hour Azure SQL Database from $0.0250/GB/month
NoSQL Document Database Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatability) from $0.0900/vCPU/hour Azure Cosmos DB from $0.000208/hour
Key-Value / Wide Column Store Amazon DynamoDB from $0.1000/1M Change Data Capture Units Table Storage
ML Platform Amazon SageMaker from $5.00/1M requests Azure Machine Learning from $0.0200/1K
AI Foundation Models Amazon Bedrock from $8.75/1M 1K tokens Azure OpenAI Service
Search (AI-Powered) Amazon Kendra Azure AI Search
Data Warehouse Amazon Redshift from $70.00/1M seconds Azure Synapse Analytics from $0.0562/GB/month
Stream Processing Amazon Kinesis from $0.0140/1M Put Requests Azure Stream Analytics
ETL / Data Integration AWS Glue from $1.00/1M requests Azure Data Factory from $0.6000/month
Business Intelligence Amazon QuickSight from $0.2500/GB/month Power BI Embedded
Managed Helm / App Deployment AWS App Runner from $0.005/Mins Azure Container Apps
Vulnerability Assessment Amazon Inspector Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Artifact / Package Registry AWS CodeArtifact Azure Artifacts
IoT Fleet Management AWS IoT FleetWise Azure IoT Central

Unique Services

Only in AWS (173)

  • AWS Amplify
  • AWS App Mesh
  • AWS App Studio
  • AWS App2Container
  • AWS AppFabric
  • AWS AppSync
  • AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
  • AWS Artifact
  • AWS Budgets
  • AWS Certificate Manager
  • AWS Clean Rooms
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
  • AWS Cloud Map
  • AWS Cloud WAN
  • AWS Cloud9
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS CloudHSM
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS CodeDeploy
  • AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • + 153 more

Only in Microsoft Azure (140)

  • AI Anomaly Detector
  • API Management
  • App Configuration
  • Application Gateway
  • Automation
  • Azure AI Content Safety
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Azure AI Immersive Reader
  • Azure AI Metrics Advisor
  • Azure AI Model Catalog
  • Azure AI Personalizer
  • Azure AI Services
  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Azure API Management
  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Azure App Testing
  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Automanage
  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Bastion
  • + 120 more

Compliance Certifications

Both (13)

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 ISO 27017 ISO 27018 HIPAA PCI DSS FedRAMP GDPR CSA STAR C5 SOC 1 Type II ISO 9001 SOC 3

SLA Guarantees

Service TypeAWSMicrosoft Azure
compute 99.99% 99.99%
database 99.99% 99.99%
networking 99.99% 99.99%
storage 99.99% 99.99%

Regions by Continent

ContinentAWSMicrosoft Azure
Africa 1 1
Asia 4 3
Europe 3 3
North America 5 3
Oceania 1 1
South America 1 1
Total 15 12

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