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Atlas Cloud vs Azure

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What's good about...

Atlas Cloud logo Atlas Cloud

  • Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
  • Free ingress and egress traffic
  • Tier 3 data center, working toward ISO 27001
  • Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible

Microsoft Azure logo Azure

  • Integrations with the rest of Microsoft's products
  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to AI
  • Generous free tier, and compute savings plans available
  • 60+ datacenter locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Atlas Cloud's prices compare against Azure?

VM Small

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
$77.66 / mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)

VM Medium

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
$149.35 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)

VM Large

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
$298.70 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)

Block Storage

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
$11.62 / mo 100 GiB Block Storage
Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
$101.96 / mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible
Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
--
Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
--
Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)

Managed Redis®*

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
--
Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)

Serverless 25M Executions

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress
Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
Free Egress is always free
Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
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Microsoft Azure Azure
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)Custom

Available Models

Azure offers 10 GPU models.

Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
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Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(20) H200(4) RTX PRO 6000(40) A100(20) V100(6) T4(16) MI300X(4) A10(12) GB200(4) MI455X(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Atlas Cloud and Azure offer:

Service Atlas Cloud Azure
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
www.atlascloud.is
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
Iceland IS flag
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Founded
Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
2025
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
1
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
Atlas Cloud Atlas Cloud
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Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on May 13, 2026, and for Azure on Sept. 11, 2026.