🆚 Amazon S3 vs. Azure Storage

📈 Amazon S3 is much more popular than Azure Storage.
🌍 Amazon S3 is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Amazon S3

Azure Storage

Type

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.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/s3/

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️5GB of Standard storage + 20,000 GET requests + 2,000 PUT requests + 100GB of data transfer out/month

Standard storageFirst 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

RequestsPUT, 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 ✔️First 100 GB of data transfer/month

Premium storage$0.15/GB

Hot storageFirst 50 TB/month$0.018/GB
Next 450 TB/month$0.0173/GB
Over 500 TB/month$0.0166/GB

Cool storage$0.01/GB/month

Cold storage$0.0036/GB/month

Archive storage$0.002/GB/month

Operations on Hot storage (per 10,000)Read$0.005
Write$0.065

Data transfer (per month)Next 10 TB$0.087+/GB
Next 40 TB$0.083+/GB
Next 100 TB$0.07+/GB
Next 350 TB$0.05+/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon S3 cloud storage service is 25 times more popular than Azure 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 Storage in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Japan

Germany

Brazil

Australia

Canada

India

France

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 the Netherlands in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.

🥉 Third most popular in Sweden in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Ireland in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon S3 is more popular than Azure Storage in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Sports

Internet Services

Entertainment

Fashion/Beauty

Blogs/Wiki

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#15

#18

#23

Name

Rank

#554

#2,491

#2,666

#3,039

privateproperty.co.za

#3,124