🆚 Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon Web Services is much more popular than Microsoft Azure.
🌎 Amazon Web Services is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Microsoft Azure is more popular in Vatican and Lesotho.

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service

About

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that delivers on-demand IT resources and services over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

It comprises over 200 products, including compute services like EC2 and Lambda, scalable object, block, and file storage, managed relational and NoSQL databases, global networking and content delivery, machine learning and analytics tools, identity and security services,.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides a broad range of on-demand services for building, deploying, and managing applications, infrastructure, and data across global Microsoft data centers.

It offers more than 200 cloud products and services, including scalable virtual machines, managed databases, serverless computing, object storage, analytics, identity and access management, and AI and machine learning tools.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️12 Months Free: 750H of EC2 compute + 5GB of S3 storage + 50 GB Elastic Container Registry + 750H of Elastic Load Balancing per month;
Always Free: 1M of AWS Lambda requests + 25 GB of Amazon DynamoDB storage

Free tier ✔️180,000 vCPU seconds for container apps + 1M Function requests + 100 GB of outbound data transfer + 1,000 Cosmos DB request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage + 100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage with 32 GB of storage per month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Amazon Web Services technology is 7 times more popular than Microsoft Azure.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon Web Services is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Microsoft Azure is more popular in Vatican and Lesotho.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Australia

Brazil

Netherlands

Canada

India

France

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Qatar in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon Web Services is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Microsoft Azure is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and public information sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Finance/Banking

General News