🆚 Azure Storage vs. Google Cloud Storage
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Google Cloud Storage is five times more popular than Azure Storage.
- 🌎 Google Cloud Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Azure Storage is more popular in Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
Azure Storage
Google Cloud StorageType
Cloud storage service
Cloud storage service
About
Azure Storage offers highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for a variety of data objects in the cloud.
Google Cloud Storage is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
cloud.google.com/storagePricing
Free tier ✔️First 100 GB of data transfer/month
Premium storage$0.15/GB
Hot storage
First 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 ✔️5 GB of Standard storage + 5,000 write and 50,000 read operations + 100 GB transfer from North America/month
Standard storage$0.020-$0.026/GB/month
Nearline storage$0.010-$0.015/GB/month
Cold storage$0.004-$0.007/GB/month
Archive storage$0.0012-$0.0024/GB/month
Operations on Standard storage (per 1,000)
Read$0.0050
Write$0.0004
Data transfer (per month)
First 1 TB$0.12+/GB
1–10 TB$0.11+/GB
10+ TB$0.08+/GB
Categories
Cloud Storages › Rank #5
Cloud Storages › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Cloud Storage service is 5 times more popular than Azure Storage.
Total websites
Market share
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google Cloud Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Azure Storage is more popular in Lebanon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Brazil
Germany
Netherlands
France
India
Australia
Canada
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 United States in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Cloud Storage is more popular than Azure Storage in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Sports
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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