🆚 DigitalOcean vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Microsoft Azure is slightly more popular than DigitalOcean.
🌎 Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany.
🌎 DigitalOcean is more popular in the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India.

DigitalOcean

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service

About

DigitalOcean is a cloud computing service provider that offers developers and businesses scalable infrastructure and platform solutions such as virtual machines, managed databases, object and block storage, and container orchestration.

It provides on-demand Droplet virtual machines with multiple CPU and memory tiers, a managed Kubernetes service with automated scaling, managed PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis databases with backups and high availability, S3-compatible object storage Spaces, block storage Volumes, serverless Functions, and a marketplace of one-click application deployments.

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

New York, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

digitalocean.com #9,326

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 60-day trial

Droplets$4+/month

Kubernetes$12+/month

Databases$15+/month

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.

The Microsoft Azure cloud service is 1.1 times more popular than DigitalOcean.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany, while DigitalOcean is more popular in the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Germany

Canada

Australia

Brazil

India

Italy

Sweden

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the Maldives in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Singapore in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Slovakia in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Latvia in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Georgia 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.

Microsoft Azure is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while DigitalOcean is more commonly used on Internet services, entertainment, and blogs and wiki sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Health

Internet Services

Travel

Software/Hardware

Finance/Banking

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO