DigitalOcean vs Microsoft Azure

The Basics

	DigitalOcean	Microsoft Azure
Website	digitalocean.com	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2008
Data Center Locations	14	66
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	Microsoft Azure
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 DigitalOcean's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Microsoft Azure
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$21.50 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$23.25 / mo Standard
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Serverless 25M Executions	$34.69 / 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 - 10 TB / mo per instance	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00	$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 DigitalOcean and Microsoft Azure offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	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)

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