MS Azure: Soaring High in the Cloud is an infographic about the competition between AWS and Azure and how Azure is quickly catching up. It reveals some breath taking facts about Azure and how many organizations have begun to use both Azure and AWS in a multi-cloud strategy.

1. Microsoft Azure
Soaring High in the Cloud
Emerging as a Major Challenger to AWS
The Azure Momentum
~120 k
New Azure customers-
subscriptions / month.
5 Mn
Organizations using
Azure Active Directory.
~4 Mn
2 Tn
Developers registered
with Visual Studio
team services.
40%
Revenue from
startups and ISVs.
Messages per week
processed by Azure IOT.
1.4 Mn
SQL databases in Azure.
Azure Cloud is huge
Processes Millions of network
requests per second backed by
high availability infrastructure.
Azure Open Source
Azure includes a variety of open
source services that are actively
supported by Microsoft.
Choice of the Fortune 500
95% of Fortune 500 companies
use Azure.
Increasing global presence
Azure is available in 54 regions
and 140 countries.
Did You Know?
How Azure Caters to Top Cloud Services
Azure Functions
Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Machine Learning Studio
Azure Container Instances
Azure IoT Solution Accelerators
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Batch
Yet to strengthen support for Hybrid Cloud. Excels in Hybrid Cloud space.
Extensive partner ecosystem.
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):
Pay by the hour.
Machines can be accessed individually.
EBS storage is superfast for Big Data.
Azure is still building its partner ecosystem.
Azure Infrastructure Services:
Pay by the minute.
Machines are grouped into cloud service
and respond to the same domain name
but different ports.
Standard storage has difficulties for Big Data
and hence premium storage is required.
AWS + Azure: The Multi-Cloud Strategy
58% of businesses are using a
combination of AWS & Azure to
create a multi-cloud network.
Enterprises are choosing attractive
features from AWS and Azure to
enable a multi-cloud strategy.
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Growth Rate in Q1 2019 Public Cloud Adoption
AWS
61% 16% 7%
Azure
52% 16% 9%
Currently Use Experimenting Plan to use
Azure - 76%
AWS - 42%
Serverless
Stream Processing
Machine Learning
Container as a Source
IoT
Data Warehouse
Batch Processing
2018 24%
36%2019
2018 20%
30%2019
2018 18%
26%2019
2018 26%
37%2019
2018 15%
21%2019
2018 29%
40%2019
2018 26%
36%2019
Azure Offerings
Both AWS & Azure continue to launch new pricing structures, new products and new integrations.
The decision to use either of the platforms or both together solely depends on the requirements of
the client organization and how AWS vs Azure compare against those requirements.
Source: Microsoft, Statista, RightScale, Techcrunch
Top Growing Public Cloud Services