Microsoft Azure vs Oracle Cloud

The Basics

	Microsoft Azure	Oracle Cloud
Website	azure.microsoft.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2016
Data Center Locations	66	39
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

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

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

Cost Comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration	Microsoft Azure	Oracle Cloud
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Medium	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Large	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB	$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$21.50 / mo 1 TB	$25.57 / mo
Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard	$7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®*	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$78.30	$8.50 1 TB

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 Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud offer:

Service	Microsoft Azure	Oracle Cloud
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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