Azure vs AWS - Comparision |
Azure |
AWS |
Public cloud platform for Microsoft
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On-demand cloud computing platform for Amazon |
Not so good relationship with the open source community. |
Friendly with the open source model from the beginning. |
Limited reach when it comes to cloud offerings of government. |
Has an edge over Azure in terms of cloud offerings of government. |
Less flexible pricing Module, Compare to AWS. |
Flexible Pricing Model |
Excels in Hybrid Cloud Space-Organizations could be integrating onsite servers with Cloud instances. |
AWS would be still strengthening its offerings to support Hybrid clouds. |
With limited Linux options, Azure is still considered to be building its partner ecosystem. |
AWS has a software marketplace which would with extensive partner ecosystem -Windows and Linux |
Standard storage has difficulties for big data and hence premium storage is required. |
EBS storage is superfast for big data. |
Less mature for big data but Azure’s services are improving. |
More mature cloud environment for big data. |
Machines are grouped into cloud service and respond to the same domain name but different ports. |
Machines can be accessed individually. |
Azure Infrastructure Services , pay by the minute. |
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); pay by the hour. |
Blobs, Queues and Tables- Similar to S3.
No long term data archiving and retrieval option yet. |
S3 – Short-term archiving and retrieval.
Long term data archiving and retrieval through Amazon Glacier. |
Provides security by enabling permissions on the whole account. |
Security is provided through user defined roles along with the exceptional permission controls. |