Atlas Cloud
vs
Azure
What's good about each
- Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
- Free ingress and egress traffic
- Tier 3 data center, ISO 27001 certified
- Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible
- Integrates with Entra ID, Microsoft 365, GitHub and Visual Studio
- Azure Arc and Azure Stack for hybrid and multicloud
- OpenAI models served through Azure AI Foundry
- 100+ compliance offerings, regional and industry-specific
- 60+ regions worldwide
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Atlas Cloud | Azure | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $77.20 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4) | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2ats v2) | 91% cheaper on Azure |
| Medium VM | $148.47 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5) | $95.76 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4als v2) | 36% cheaper on Azure |
| Large VM | $296.93 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7) | $231.84 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (D8als v6) | 22% cheaper on Azure |
| Block storage | $11.55 /mo 100 GiB Block Storage | $7.92 /mo 100 GB (Premium SSD v2) | 31% cheaper on Azure |
| Object storage | $101.35 /mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible | $35.25 /mo 1 TB | 65% cheaper on Azure |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $54.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Flexible Server B2s) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $23.04 /mo 1 GB RAM (Managed Redis Balanced B1) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $23.00 /mo Standard | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $35.00 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress | 100 GB / mo | |
| Egress | Free Egress is always free | $87.00 /TB $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) | Free on Atlas Cloud |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Azure offers 10 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Atlas Cloud.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Atlas Cloud | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Level 1 |
| FedRAMP | -- | High |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Atlas Cloud | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Iceland | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 66 |
| Example customers | -- | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
| Website | www.atlascloud.is | azure.microsoft.com |
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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Azure on Oct. 21, 2026.