The document provides a comparison between AWS and Microsoft Azure, focusing on their cloud services, deployment options, and storage capabilities. Both platforms offer introductory pricing models, extensive storage solutions, and robust networking features for applications. The comparison highlights strengths and weaknesses, noting Azure's integration with Microsoft systems and AWS's support for a wider range of development tools.

1. EC2 Instances Virtual Machines
Elastic Beanstalk
for app deployment
Cloud Services &
Resource Manager
for app deployment
EC2 Container Service
AWS Lambda
Autoscaling Azure Autoscaling
PRICING
AWS & Microsoft provides a price calculator.
Both vendors offer free introductory tiers,
before beginning to charge customers.
COMPUTE
Simple Storage (S3)
Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Elastic File System (EFS)
Import/Export large volume
data transfer service
Glacier archive backup and
Storage Gateway
which integrates with on-premise environments.
Azure Storage service
Azure Blob block storage
Table, Queue and File storage
Import /Export data
Site Recovery and
Azure Backup
STORAGE
The two cloud providers also offer “excellent”
networking capabilities allowing applications to be
deployed on a local or global level, relying on server
load balancing components (Azure Load Balancer,
and AWS’ Elastic Load Balancing), and direct network
connectivity to link with on-premise systems.
Both support relational databases (Azure SQL
Database, Amazon Relational Database
Service and Redshift), and NoSQL data bases
(Azure DocumentDB and Amazon DynamoDB).
NETWORKING
Since 2006
Enterprise-friendly services
Ranks highest in many fields such as platform
configuration options, monitoring and policy features,
security, reliability as well as its service offerings.
Open and flexible.
Hybrid cloud strategy, Scale of its offeringDownside :
Ranks highest in Development and Testing tools.
Links well with key Microsoft on-premise
systems such as Windows Server, System Center
and Active Directory.
Stronger PaaS capabilities
Outages, Limitation for supporting other platformsDownside :
AWS MS AZURE
Source : ComputerworldUK, Gartner
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