The Basics

Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch
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 Fly.io's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration Fly.io Microsoft Azure
VM Small $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x) $7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)
VM Medium $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x) $137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)
VM Large $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x) $288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)
Block Storage $15.00 / mo 100 GB $9.60 / mo 128 GiB
Object Storage $21.00 / mo 1 TB $21.50 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $23.25 / mo Standard
Managed PostgreSQL $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage $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 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $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 Fly.io and Microsoft Azure offer:

Service Fly.io 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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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for Microsoft Azure on Feb. 10, 2024.