Cloudways
vs
Azure
What's good about each
- Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
- Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
- Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups
- Flat-priced Node.js hosting with PostgreSQL on every plan
- 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 | Cloudways | Azure | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $14.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2ats v2) | 52% cheaper on Azure |
| Medium VM | $99.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) | $95.76 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4als v2) | Within 5% |
| Large VM | $149.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) | $231.84 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (D8als v6) | 36% cheaper on Cloudways |
| 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 | Included depending on plan | $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 | 1-12 TB / mo | 100 GB / mo | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (DO provider) | $87.00 /TB $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) | 77% cheaper on Cloudways |
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 Cloudways.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Cloudways | 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 | Cloudways | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 66 |
| Example customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
| Website | www.cloudways.com | azure.microsoft.com |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Azure on Oct. 21, 2026.