Microsoft Azure vs Vultr

The Basics

	Microsoft Azure	Vultr
Website	azure.microsoft.com	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2014
Data Center Locations	66	32
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

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

	Vultr
Website	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	32
Example Customers	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

Cost Comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against Vultr?

Example configuration	Microsoft Azure	Vultr
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)	$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)	$40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)	$160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$21.50 / mo 1 TB	$6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard	$10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$78.30	$10.00

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 Vultr offer:

Service	Microsoft Azure	Vultr
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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