🆚 Azure Storage vs. DigitalOcean Spaces

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 DigitalOcean Spaces is twice as popular as Azure Storage.
🌎 DigitalOcean Spaces is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil.
🌍 Azure Storage is more popular in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Japan.

Azure Storage

DigitalOcean Spaces

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.

DigitalOcean Spaces is a cloud-based, S3-compatible object storage service for storing and serving large amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, and static files.

It includes built-in global CDN caching, HTTPS security, support for up to 100 buckets per account, optional low-cost cold storage, and bucket-level access keys for tighter security.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

New York, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

digitalocean.com #9,326

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 version ❌

250 GB of storage + 1 TB of outbound data transfer$5/month

Additional storage$0.02/GB/month

Additional transfer$0.01/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The DigitalOcean Spaces cloud storage service is 1.9 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.

DigitalOcean Spaces is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, while Azure Storage is more popular in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Japan.

United States

United Kingdom

Brazil

Netherlands

Indonesia

Canada

Australia

Germany

India

France

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.

🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Thailand in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Singapore in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Slovakia in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Bangladesh in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

DigitalOcean Spaces is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Azure Storage is more commonly used on education and reference, health, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Sports

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Health