🆚 Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Google Cloud is three times more popular than Microsoft Azure.
🌎 Google Cloud is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Microsoft Azure is more popular in Norway, Denmark, and Slovakia.

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service

About

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that runs on the same global infrastructure used to power its own products.

It includes infrastructure and platform services such as Compute Engine virtual machines, App Engine platform hosting, Google Kubernetes Engine, serverless compute with Cloud Functions and Cloud Run, object and block storage, scalable relational and NoSQL databases, and CDN.

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

Mountain View, California, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

cloud.google.com

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️1 micro VM instance with 30 GB disk + 1 GB of outbound data transfer + 2M Cloud Run requests + 5 GB of Cloud Storage per 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.

Google Cloud technology is 3 times more popular than Microsoft Azure.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Cloud is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Microsoft Azure is more popular in Norway, Denmark, and Slovakia.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Italy

Canada

Netherlands

Germany

Spain

Japan

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Gibraltar in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Oman 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.

Google Cloud is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Microsoft Azure is more commonly used on finance and banking, public information, and government and military sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Health

Travel

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Software/Hardware