🆚 Google App Engine vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Microsoft Azure is four times more popular than Google App Engine.
🌎 Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Google App Engine is more popular in Japan, Indonesia, and Ukraine.

Google App Engine

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service

About

Google App Engine is a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.

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

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

cloud.google.com/appengine

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️28 hours of F1 instances + 9 hours of B1 instances + 1 GB of outbound data transfer per day

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 4 times more popular than Google App Engine.

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 United Kingdom, and Australia, while Google App Engine is more popular in Japan, Indonesia, and Ukraine.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Netherlands

Germany

Japan

Canada

Brazil

Sweden

France