The Basics

Microsoft Azure
Website azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2008
Data Center Locations 66
Example Customers General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

Cost Comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Microsoft Azure Scaleway
VM Small $7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s) $10.80 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2) $42.10 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2) $171.64 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $9.60 / mo 128 GiB $10.26 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $21.50 / mo 1 TB $15.65 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $23.25 / mo Standard $12.44 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) $34.54 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) $37.78 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $28.34 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $78.30 Free for most services

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 Scaleway offer:

Service Microsoft Azure Scaleway
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 Microsoft Azure was last updated on Feb. 10, 2024, and for Scaleway on Feb. 10, 2024.