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Flightcontrol 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...

Flightcontrol

Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions

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 Flightcontrol's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	Flightcontrol	Microsoft Azure
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	--	$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	--	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	--	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	$78.30

Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.

There are currently 4 plans available:

Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.

Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.

Azure offers GPUs in the following configurations:

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

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.

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Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Flightcontrol and Microsoft Azure offer:

Service	Flightcontrol	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

	Flightcontrol	Microsoft Azure
Website	flightcontrol.dev	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021	2008
Data Center Locations	--	66
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

	Flightcontrol
Website	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

	Microsoft Azure
Website	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	66
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA