🆚 Azure Storage vs. Google Cloud Storage

📈 Google Cloud Storage is much 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, Mauritius, and Iraq.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Azure Storage

Google Cloud Storage

Type

Cloud storage service

About

Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage service that provides object, file, queue, table, and disk storage accessible through a REST API.

It offers hot, cool, cold, and archive blob tiers, encryption, shared access signatures, data redundancy across data centers and regions, Data Lake Storage Gen2 hierarchical namespaces, and Azure Files shares over SMB and NFS.

Google Cloud Storage is a managed object storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data on Google's infrastructure.

It provides multiple storage classes and lifecycle management, encryption and IAM controls, strong global consistency, Turbo Replication offering a 15-minute recovery point objective (RPO), and the Cloud Storage FUSE tool for mounting buckets as local filesystems.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

cloud.google.com/storage

Pricing

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

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Cloud Storage service is 6 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.

Google Cloud Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Azure Storage is more popular in Lebanon, Mauritius, and Iraq.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Brazil

Netherlands

Australia

France

India

Canada

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Canada in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Norway in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Cloud Storages category.

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom 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

Health

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Sports

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

sportinglife.com

#2,338

mercantilbanco.com

#2,491

nationwide.co.uk

#2,666

privateproperty.co.za

#3,124

oriflame.com

#3,197

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Name

Rank

#12

#54

#57

#88

#98