Microsoft Azure vs OVHcloud

The Basics

	Microsoft Azure	OVHcloud
Website	azure.microsoft.com	www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2008	1999
Data Center Locations	66	12
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA	Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys

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

	OVHcloud
Website	www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1999
Data Center Locations	12
Example Customers	Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys

Cost Comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against OVHcloud?

Example configuration	Microsoft Azure	OVHcloud
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)	$36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)
VM Medium	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)	$73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)
VM Large	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)	$130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)
Block Storage	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB	$9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Object Storage	$21.50 / mo 1 TB	$10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard	$45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Managed PostgreSQL	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)	$51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Managed Redis®*	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)	$44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
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	Free and unlimited

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 OVHcloud offer:

Service	Microsoft Azure	OVHcloud
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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