Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure

The Basics

	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure
Website	aws.amazon.com	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2008
Data Center Locations	31	66
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

	Amazon Web Services
Website	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006
Data Center Locations	31
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro

	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 Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	$21.50 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Managed Redis®*	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Serverless 25M Executions	$36.26 / 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 / mo	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$92.16	$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 Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	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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