🆚 Amazon S3 vs. Azure Blob Storage
- 📈 Amazon S3 is much more popular than Azure Blob Storage.
- 🌍 Amazon S3 is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Azure Blob Storage is particularly popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
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About
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
It supports multiple storage classes, including Standard, Infrequent Access, and Glacier tiers, strong read-after-write consistency, automatic encryption, fine-grained access controls, versioning, cross-region replication, and storage class analysis.
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's cloud object storage service for storing massive amounts of unstructured data such as text, images, and binary files.
It provides five access tiers, including a Smart tier that automatically shifts data between Hot, Cool, and Cold based on usage, three blob types optimized for specific operations, and always-on transparent 256-bit AES encryption compliant with FIPS 140-2.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Sweden in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the Cloud Storages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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