The Basics
Cloudflare | Microsoft Azure | |
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Website | cloudflare.com | azure.microsoft.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2009 | 2008 |
Data Center Locations | 285 | 66 |
Example Customers | Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
Cloudflare | |
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Website | cloudflare.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2009 |
Data Center Locations | 285 |
Example Customers | Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify |
Microsoft Azure | |
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Website | azure.microsoft.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2008 |
Data Center Locations | 66 |
Example Customers | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
Cost Comparison
How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?
Example configuration | Cloudflare | Microsoft Azure |
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VM Small | -- | $7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s) |
VM Medium | -- | $137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2) |
VM Large | -- | $288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2) |
Block Storage | -- | $9.60 / mo 128 GiB |
Object Storage | $19.86 / mo 1 TB | $21.50 / mo 1 TB |
Load Balancer | -- | $23.25 / mo Standard |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | $131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) |
Managed Redis®* | -- | $39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) |
Serverless 25M Executions | $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration | $29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
Free egress allowance | -- | 100 GB / mo |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | Free for most services | $78.30 |
Note: These 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 Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure offer:
Service | Cloudflare | Microsoft Azure |
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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) | -- |
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More comparisonsOur data for Cloudflare was last updated on Feb. 9, 2024, and for Microsoft Azure on Feb. 10, 2024.