This document provides a comparison of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It includes a mind map outlining the key services offered by each platform, as well as their strategies for public and hybrid cloud offerings. The document also discusses market perceptions and the growth and adoption of each platform over time. Key concerns about choosing between the platforms are outlined.

1. Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
A mind map…
By
Gururaj Pandurangi
Founder & Partner | Avyan Consulting Corp

2. gururajp@avyanconsulting.com
@gnarlytweeter
As a Founder & Partner of
• Avyan Consulting Corp – cloud consulting services
• Cloudneeti – An Azure marketplace product for Continuous
Governance & Compliance of Azure Assets
As a cloud enthusiast, Gururaj guides clients towards a business-
focused and holistic approach to cloud adoption. The team he
leads specializes in data center transformation, cloud-scale
application design, DevOps & CI/CD, analytics, Cybersecurity &
Compliance, and Internet of Things (IoT).

6. The Race…

8. Gartner’s disclaimer:
Customers that are comparing the 2016 and 2017 Magic
Quadrants may notice that the scale of the Magic
Quadrant graphic has changed — overall, the Ability to
Execute axis has expanded. In a year-to-year
comparison, this has the effect of making it look as if the
vendors have moved down in execution. For instance,
AWS appears to be less far up the Ability to Execute axis
than it did in the previous year, despite significant
improvements in its business in the past year.
This rescaling reflects Gartner's belief that, as later-
adopting customers begin to evaluate cloud IaaS, the
overall customer requirements have expanded, and
there are still many unmet needs in this market,
resulting in greater room for improvement for all
vendors.

9. 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
June 2017: Gartner IaaS MQ
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2G45TQU&ct=150519&st=sb

10. Microsoft leads in core technologies, IaaS, PaaS, Private and Public Clouds
"Microsoft’s comprehensive hybrid
story, which spans applications and
platforms as well as infrastructure, is
highly attractive to many companies,
drawing them towards the cloud in
general.”
LYDIA LEONG,
GARTNER
What about
Microsoft..?
Public Cloud IaaS (May 2015) Cloud Storage (June 2015) Enterprise App PaaS (Jan 2014) Operational DBMS Systems (Oct 2015)X86 Server Virt (July 2015)

11. Market Perception &
Revenues

12. Source: http://kpcb.com/internet-trends

13. https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/07/21/trends-cloud-computing-uses-aws-uses-azure/

14. Strategies Employed

15. Public, Global, Shared DatacentersMicrosoft Azure Stack
& Cloud Platform System
Security&
Management
Public
Cloud
Platform
Hybrid
Operations
Security&
Management
Hybrid
Operations
Software As a Service
• Office 365
• Microsoft CRM
• Dynamics AX
• VS Online
• Etc.

16. Public, Global, Shared Datacenters
Security&
Management
Public
Cloud
Platform
Operations

17. >90,000
New Azure customer
subscriptions/month
1.5Trillion
Messages per month
processed by Azure IoT
>500Million
Users in
Azure Active Directory
777Trillion
Storage Transactions
per day
>1.5Million
SQL Databases
running on Azure
>40%
Revenue from
Start-ups and ISVs
Azure momentum

18. >80%
of Fortune 500 use
the Microsoft Cloud

19. >95%
of Fortune 500 use
the AWS

20. Hyperscale
Infrastructure

22. https://www.atomia.com/2016/11/24/comparing-the-geographical-coverage-of-aws-
azure-and-google-cloud/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-
azure-expands-with-two-new-regions-for-australia/

23. The Platforms

24. Infrastructure Services
1. Compute 2. Storage 3. Networking
4. Compute Services 5. Data Services 6. Analytics, ML & IoT
Services
7. Integration
Services
Datacenter
8. Web & Mobile 9. Media
12.Security&Management
13.Hybrid(optional)
10. Development
Services
11. Deployment
Services
14 (first party SaaS)

25. Platform Services
Infrastructure Services
Web Apps
Mobile
Apps
API
Management
API Apps
Logic Apps
Notification
Hubs
Content
Delivery
Network (CDN)
Media
Services
BizTalk
Services
Hybrid
Connections
Service Bus
Storage
Queues
Hybrid
Operations
Backup
StorSimple
Azure Site
Recovery
Import/Export
SQL
Database
DocumentDB
Redis
Cache
Azure
Search
Storage
Tables
Data
Warehouse Azure AD
Health Monitoring
AD Privileged
Identity
Management
Operational
Analytics
Cloud
Services
Batch
RemoteApp
Service
Fabric
Visual Studio
App
Insights
Azure
SDK
VS Online
Domain Services
HDInsight Machine
Learning
Stream
Analytics
Data
Factory
Event
Hubs
Mobile
Engagement
Data
Lake
IoT Hub
Data
Catalog
Security &
Management
Azure Active
Directory
Multi-Factor
Authentication
Automation
Portal
Key Vault
Store/
Marketplace
VM Image Gallery
& VM Depot
Azure AD
B2C
Scheduler
The Azure Platform (October 2015)

26. The AWS Platform (October 2015)

28. Summary

29. Its not about who is
better…
How do you want to
get value from
them?...
Here’s some concerns
to watch out for

30. Cloud
Native
Landscape
what you have to
watch for…

31. Compare
Public
Cloud
Providers
Open sourced
and updated
regularly… Source: https://ilyas-it83.github.io/CloudComparer/
100 AWS
Services
135 Azure
Services

32. AWS vs Azure side by side
comparison
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/architecture/aws-
professional/services
Open sourced comparison
https://ilyas-
it83.github.io/CloudComparer/
Forbes Comparison
https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2017/0
5/28/how-aws-and-azure-competing-is-improving-
public-cloud-adoption/#39288c042c26
Gartner IaaS MQ
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id
=1-2G45TQU&ct=150519&st=sb

33. Q & A