Azure
vs
STRG
What's good about each
- Integrates with Entra ID, Microsoft 365, GitHub and Visual Studio
- Azure Arc and Azure Stack for hybrid and multicloud
- OpenAI models served through Azure AI Foundry
- 100+ compliance offerings, regional and industry-specific
- 60+ regions worldwide
- All egress and standard S3 API requests included
- No retrieval fees or minimum storage duration
- MCP server for managing buckets from AI agents
- Choose to store your data in Europe or the US
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Azure | STRG | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2ats v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $95.76 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4als v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $231.84 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (D8als v6) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $7.92 /mo 100 GB (Premium SSD v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $35.25 /mo 1 TB | $6.80 /mo 1 TB | 81% cheaper on STRG |
| PostgreSQL | $54.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Flexible Server B2s) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $23.04 /mo 1 GB RAM (Managed Redis Balanced B1) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $23.00 /mo Standard | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $35.00 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $87.00 /TB $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) | Free and unlimited |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Azure offers 10 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for STRG.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Azure | STRG |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | -- |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Level 1 | -- |
| FedRAMP | High | -- |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Azure | STRG |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 | -- |
| Headquarters | USA | Austria |
| Locations | 66 | 2 |
| Example customers | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA | -- |
| Website | azure.microsoft.com | strg.com |
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Our data for Azure was last updated on Nov. 9, 2026, and for STRG on Nov. 9, 2026.