🆚 Azure Storage vs. Cloudflare R2

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Azure Storage is twice as popular as Cloudflare R2.
🌎 Azure Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Cloudflare R2 is more popular in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Azure Storage

Cloudflare R2

Type

Cloud storage service

About

Azure Storage offers highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for a variety of data objects in the cloud.

Cloudflare R2 is a globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service designed to store large amounts of unstructured data without charging egress bandwidth fees.

It supports Standard and Infrequent Access storage classes, provides strong durability and security features with bucket tokens and CORS, and includes tools for migration and event notifications that integrate with serverless compute.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

cloudflare.com #20

Pricing

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

Free tier ✔️10 GB of storage + 1M class A operations + 10 class B operations per month

StandardStorage$0.015/GB/month
Class A operations$4.50/million
Class B operations$0.36/million

Infrequent AccessStorage$0.01/GB/month
Class A operations$9/million
Class B operations$0.90/million
Data retrieval$0.01/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Azure Storage service is 2.2 times more popular than Cloudflare R2.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Cloudflare R2 is more popular in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Thailand.

United States

Indonesia

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Brazil

Canada

France

Australia

Germany

India

Awards

🥉 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 Ireland in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Cloud Storages category.

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Cloud Storages category.
🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure Storage is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Cloudflare R2 is more commonly used on blogs and wiki sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Health

Internet Services

Sports

Entertainment

General News

Finance/Banking