🆚 Amazon S3 vs. Azure Blob Storage

Type

Cloud storage service
Cloud storage service

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.

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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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Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free tier ✔️ 5GB of Standard storage + 20,000 GET requests + 2,000 PUT requests + 100GB of data transfer out/month
Standard storage
First 50 TB/month $0.023/GB
Next 450 TB/month $0.022/GB
Over 500 TB/month $0.021 per GB
Infrequent Access Tier/month $0.0125/GB
Archive Instant Access Tier/month $0.004/GB
Requests
PUT, COPY, POST, LIST (per 1,000) $0.005
GET, SELECT (per 1,000) $0.0004
Data transfer In (per month) Free
Data transfer Out (per month)
Free version ✔️ 100 GB for all AWS services
First 10 TB $0.09/GB
Next 40 TB $0.085/GB
Next 100 TB $0.07/GB
> 150 TB $0.05/GB
Free tier ✔️ 12-month trial: 5 GB of Hot storage with 20K read/10K write operations per month
Storage Tiers
Premium $0.15/GB
Hot $0.0184-/GB
Cool $0.01/GB/month
Cold $0.0036/GB/month
Archive $0.002/GB/month
Operations on Hot storage
(per 10,000)
Read $0.004
Write $0.05
Internet Egress
(per month)
Free tier ✔️ First 100 GB
Next $0.087-/GB

Categories

Cloud Storages › Rank #1
Cloud Storages › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon S3 cloud storage service is 15 times more popular than Azure Blob Storage.
Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon S3 is more popular than Azure Blob Storage in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
Brazil
Australia
Canada
India
Netherlands
France

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon S3 is more popular than Azure Blob Storage in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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See also

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