BreezeHost
vs
Azure
What's good about each
- 14 cities across the US, Europe and Asia
- 10-250 TB monthly transfer included on every plan
- AMD EPYC VPS with DDR5 memory and NVMe storage
- One dedicated RTX 5090 per GPU instance
- 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 | BreezeHost | Azure | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $7.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe (Cloud-1) | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2ats v2) | Within 5% |
| Medium VM | $17.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe (Cloud-4) | $95.76 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4als v2) | 82% cheaper on BreezeHost |
| Large VM | $49.00 /mo 10 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 180 GB NVMe (Cloud-16) | $231.84 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (D8als v6) | 79% cheaper on BreezeHost |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $7.92 /mo 100 GB (Premium SSD v2) | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $35.25 /mo 1 TB | |
| 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 | 10 TB / mo per instance | 100 GB / mo | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $87.00 /TB $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) |
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
BreezeHost offers 1 GPU model, while Azure offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | BreezeHost | Azure | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX 5090
3 configs
|
$0.63 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) · sold out | -- | BreezeHost only |
|
H100
20 configs
|
-- | $1.29 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
40 configs
|
-- | $1.02 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
H200
4 configs
|
-- | $6.86 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Azure only |
|
A100
20 configs
|
-- | $0.68 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
GB200
4 configs
|
-- | $11.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Azure only |
MI300X
4 configs
|
-- | $1.60 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
V100
6 configs
|
-- | $0.28 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
T4
16 configs
|
-- | $0.15 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
A10
12 configs
|
-- | $0.59 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
BreezeHost bills on-demand and reserved (1 months); Azure bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 or 36 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | BreezeHost | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | -- | 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 | BreezeHost | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2022 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 14 | 66 |
| Example customers | -- | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
| Website | breezehost.io | azure.microsoft.com |
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Our data for BreezeHost was last updated on Sept. 22, 2026, and for Azure on Oct. 1, 2026.