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Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure

AWS and Microsoft Azure both offer a wide range of cloud services. AWS is known for its extensive service catalog and maturity, while Azure excels in integrating with Microsoft products and services.

In this page:

What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Amazon Web Services

Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
Several products such as S3 are industry benchmarks
Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
30+ datacenter locations around the world

Microsoft 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 Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	$21.50 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Managed Redis®*	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Serverless 25M Executions	$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$92.16	$78.30

AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g5g.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.42
g4dn.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.53
g5g.2xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	8	16GB	$0.56
g3s.xlarge	1x M60	8GB	4	30GB	$0.75
g4dn.2xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	8	32GB	$0.75
g5g.4xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	16	16GB	$0.83
p2.xlarge	1x K80	12GB	4	61GB	$0.90
g5.xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	4	16GB	$1.01
g3.4xlarge	1x M60	8GB	16	122GB	$1.14
g4dn.4xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	16	64GB	$1.20
g5.2xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	8	32GB	$1.21
g5g.8xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	32	16GB	$1.37
g5.4xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	16	64GB	$1.62
g4dn.8xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	32	128GB	$2.18
g3.8xlarge	2x M60	16GB	32	244GB	$2.28
g5.8xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	32	128GB	$2.45
g5g.16xlarge	2x T4G	32GB	64	32GB	$2.74
p3.2xlarge	1x V100	16GB	8	61GB	$3.06
g4dn.12xlarge	4x T4G	64GB	48	192GB	$3.91
g5.12xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	48	192GB	$4.10
g4dn.16xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	64	256GB	$4.35
g3.16xlarge	4x M60	32GB	64	488GB	$4.56
g5.16xlarge	2x A10G	48GB	64	256GB	$5.67
p2.8xlarge	8x K80	96GB	32	488GB	$7.20
g4dn.metal	8x T4G	128GB	96	384GB	$7.82
g5.24xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	96	384GB	$8.14
p3.8xlarge	4x V100	64GB	32	244GB	$12.24
p2.16xlarge	16x K80	192GB	64	732GB	$14.40
g5.48xlarge	8x A10G	192GB	192	768GB	$16.29
p3.16xlarge	8x V100	128GB	64	488GB	$24.48
p4d.24xlarge	8x A100	320GB	96	1152GB	$32.77
p5.48xlarge	8x H100	640GB	192	2048GB	$98.32

Azure offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
NC4as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	4	28GB	$0.53
NC8as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	8	56GB	$0.75
NC6	1x K80	12GB	6	56GB	$0.90
NV6	1x M60	8GB	6	56GB	$1.14
NV12s v3	1x M60	8GB	12	112GB	$1.14
NC16as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	16	110GB	$1.20
NC12	2x K80	24GB	12	112GB	$1.80
NC6s v2	1x P100	16GB	6	112GB	$2.07
ND6s	1x P40	24GB	6	112GB	$2.07
NV12	2x M60	16GB	12	112GB	$2.28
NV24s v3	2x M60	16GB	24	224GB	$2.28
NC6s v3	1x V100	16GB	6	112GB	$3.06
NC24	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.60
NC24r	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.96
NC12s v2	2x P100	32GB	12	224GB	$4.14
ND12s	2x P40	48GB	12	224GB	$4.14
NC64as T4 v3	4x T4	64GB	64	440GB	$4.35
NV48s v3	4x M60	32GB	48	448GB	$4.56
NV24	4x M60	32GB	24	224GB	$4.56
NC12s v3	2x V100	32GB	12	224GB	$6.12
ND24s	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$8.28
NC24s v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$8.28
ND24rs	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$9.11
NC24rs v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$9.11
NC24s v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$12.24
NC24rs v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$13.46
ND40rs v2	8x V100	256GB	40	672GB	$22.03
ND96asr A100 v4	8x A100	320GB	96	900GB	$27.20

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure
Website	aws.amazon.com	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2008
Data Center Locations	31	66
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

	Amazon Web Services
Website	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006
Data Center Locations	31
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro

	Microsoft Azure
Website	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	66
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA