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Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are both listed under Cloud Infrastructure in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.

It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.

Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure field by field

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
CategoryCloud InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure
Pricing modelPay per usePay per use
Key features
  • 200+ cloud services across compute, storage, and databases
  • Global infrastructure with 99+ availability zones
  • Serverless computing with Lambda
  • Managed database services (RDS, DynamoDB)
  • Container services (ECS, EKS)
  • AI/ML services and tools
  • Security and compliance certifications
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing model
  • Hybrid cloud capabilities
  • Integration with Microsoft ecosystem
  • Azure Active Directory for identity management
  • AI and machine learning services
  • DevOps tools and services
  • Global data center presence
  • Enterprise-grade security
  • Flexible pricing and licensing
Use cases
  • Web and mobile application hosting
  • Data backup and disaster recovery
  • Big data analytics and processing
  • Machine learning and AI workloads
  • Enterprise application migration
  • DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
  • IoT and edge computing
  • Content delivery and media streaming
  • Enterprise application development
  • Hybrid cloud implementations
  • Microsoft workload migration
  • AI and analytics solutions
  • DevOps and automation
  • Disaster recovery and backup
  • IoT and edge computing
  • Virtual desktop infrastructure
Integrations
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Datadog
  • Office 365
  • Visual Studio
  • GitHub
  • Power BI
  • Dynamics 365
Tags
  • cloud
  • infrastructure
  • serverless
  • database
  • storage
  • computing
  • cloud
  • microsoft
  • enterprise
  • hybrid
  • ai
  • devops
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What each one is

Amazon Web Services

Comprehensive cloud computing platform and services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. AWS provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

Full Amazon Web Services listing

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's cloud computing platform and services

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Full Microsoft Azure listing

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