DigitalOcean vs Azure

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

What's good about...

DigitalOcean

Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online

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 DigitalOcean's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Microsoft Azure
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$8.10 / mo 100 GB
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 $0.01 / GB	$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	240GB	$3.39	Launch
Nvidia H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1920GB	$23.92	Launch

Azure offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
NC4as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	4	28GB	$0.53	Source
NC8as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	8	56GB	$0.75	Source
NC6	1x K80	12GB	6	56GB	$0.90	Source
NV6	1x M60	8GB	6	56GB	$1.14	Source
NV12s v3	1x M60	8GB	12	112GB	$1.14	Source
NC16as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	16	110GB	$1.20	Source
NC12	2x K80	24GB	12	112GB	$1.80	Source
NC6s v2	1x P100	16GB	6	112GB	$2.07	Source
ND6s	1x P40	24GB	6	112GB	$2.07	Source
NV12	2x M60	16GB	12	112GB	$2.28	Source
NV24s v3	2x M60	16GB	24	224GB	$2.28	Source
NC6s v3	1x V100	16GB	6	112GB	$3.06	Source
NC24	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.60	Source
NC24r	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.96	Source
NC12s v2	2x P100	32GB	12	224GB	$4.14	Source
ND12s	2x P40	48GB	12	224GB	$4.14	Source
NC64as T4 v3	4x T4	64GB	64	440GB	$4.35	Source
NV48s v3	4x M60	32GB	48	448GB	$4.56	Source
NV24	4x M60	32GB	24	224GB	$4.56	Source
NC24ads A100 v4	1x A100	80GB	24	220GB	$4.78	Launch
NC12s v3	2x V100	32GB	12	224GB	$6.12	Source
ND24s	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$8.28	Source
NC24s v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$8.28	Source
ND24rs	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$9.11	Source
NC24rs v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$9.11	Source
NC24s v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$12.24	Source
NC24rs v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$13.46	Source
ND40rs v2	8x V100	256GB	40	672GB	$22.03	Source
ND96asr A100 v4	8x A100	320GB	96	900GB	$27.20	Source

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 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)

Company details

	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