Why Azure vs. AWS | Microsoft Azure (2024)

Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds

Enable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere

Managed, always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud

Fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale

Build and scale with managed Kubernetes

Deploy high-quality AI models as APIs

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

Everything you need to build and operate a live game on one platform

Process events with serverless code

Experience quantum impact today on Azure

Extend Azure management and services anywhere

Simplify operations and management from cloud to edge with an AI companion

Build, train and deploy models from the cloud to the edge

Your platform for developing generative AI solutions and custom copilots

Enterprise scale search for app development

Apply advanced coding and language models to a variety of use cases

Unified speech services for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech translation

Add natural language capabilities with a single API call

Easily conduct machine translation with a simple REST API call

Unlock insights from image and video content with AI

Accelerate information extraction from documents

Use AI to monitor text and image content for safety

Unlock video insights

Protect at the speed and scale of AI with a generative AI-powered assistant

Limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight

Design AI with Apache Spark™-based analytics

A unified data governance solution that maximizes the business value of your data

Hybrid data integration at enterprise scale, made easy

Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters

Real-time analytics on fast-moving streaming data

Build, train and deploy models from the cloud to the edge

Enterprise-grade analytics engine as a service

Fast and highly scalable data exploration service

Access, manage, and act on data and insights by connecting every data source and analytics service together on a single platform

Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds

Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows virtual machines

Build and scale with managed Kubernetes

A fully managed Spring Cloud service, jointly built and operated with VMware

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

Process events with serverless code

A dedicated physical server to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux

Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management

Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud

Provision unused compute capacity at deep discounts to run interruptible workloads

Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers

Streamline development with secure, ready-to-code workstations in the cloud

Build and scale with managed Kubernetes

Fully managed OpenShift service, jointly operated with Red Hat

Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers

Process events with serverless code

Easily deploy and run containerized web apps on Windows and Linux

Easily run containers on Azure without managing servers

Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux

Store and manage container images across all types of deployments

Seamlessly manage Kubernetes clusters at scale

Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is an on-premises Kubernetes implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that automates running containerized applications at scale.

Managed, always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud

Fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale

Managed, intelligent SQL in the cloud

Fully managed, intelligent and scalable PostgreSQL

Managed, always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud

Fully managed, scalable MySQL Database

Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud

Accelerate applications with high-throughput, low-latency data caching

Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud

Cloud Cassandra with flexibility, control and scale

Managed MariaDB database service for app developers

Services for teams to share code, track work and ship software

Continuously build, test and deploy to any platform and cloud

Plan, track and discuss work across your teams

Get unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repos for your project

Create, host and share packages with your team

Test and ship with confidence with a manual and exploratory testing toolkit

Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts

Use your favourite DevOps tools with Azure

Full observability into your apps, infrastructure, and network

Optimize app performance with high-scale load testing

Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates

The powerful and flexible environment for developing applications in the cloud

A powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development

World’s leading developer platform, seamlessly integrated with Azure

Comprehensive set of resources to create, deploy, and manage apps

A powerful, low-code platform for building apps quickly

Get the SDKs and command-line tools you need

Continuously build, test, release and monitor your mobile and desktop apps

Full observability into your apps, infrastructure, and network

Optimize app performance with high-scale load testing

Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates

Streamline development with secure, ready-to-code workstations in the cloud

Extend Azure management and services anywhere

Put cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics to work to help protect your enterprise

Build and run innovative hybrid applications across cloud boundaries

Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure

Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on

Managed, always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud

Services for teams to share code, track work and ship software

Fully managed, intelligent and scalable PostgreSQL

Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices managed by Azure IoT Hub

Full observability into your apps, infrastructure, and network

Consumer identity and access management in the cloud

Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers

Automate the access and use of data across clouds

Connect across private and public cloud environments

Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale

Reliable event delivery at massive scale

Reduce time, risk, and cost of energy exploration and production

Azure Data Manager for Agriculture extends the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform with industry-specific data connectors and capabilities to bring together farm data from disparate sources, enabling organizations to leverage high quality datasets and accelerate the development of digital agriculture solutions

Unlock insights for intelligent local actions and global visibility. Enabled by Azure Arc

Connect, monitor and manage billions of IoT assets

Build next-generation IoT solutions that model entire environments in real time

Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices managed by Azure IoT Hub

Accelerate the creation of IoT solutions

Securely connect embedded MCU-powered devices from silicon to cloud

Build intelligent edge solutions with world-class developer tools, long-term support and enterprise-grade security.

Making embedded IoT development and connectivity easy

Enterprise-grade machine learning service to build and deploy models faster

Simple and secure location APIs provide geospatial context to data

Build, manage, and monitor all Azure products in a single, unified console

A unified data governance solution that maximizes the business value of your data

Stay connected to your Azure resources—anytime, anywhere

Streamline Azure administration with a browser-based shell

Your personalised Azure best practices recommendation engine

Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware

Manage your cloud spending with confidence

Implement corporate governance and standards at scale for Azure resources

Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service

Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating outages

Full observability into your apps, infrastructure, and network

Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale

Studio grade encoding at cloud scale

A single player for all your playback needs

Deliver content to virtually all devices with scale to meet business needs

Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine and Fairplay

Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach

Discover, assess, right-size, and migrate your on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Azure

Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service

Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud

Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge compute

Manage your cloud spending with confidence

Render high-quality, interactive 3D content and stream it to your devices in real time

Build next-generation IoT solutions that model entire environments in real time

Send push notifications to any platform from any back end

Continuously build, test, release and monitor your mobile and desktop apps

Create cloud-powered mobile apps faster

Simple and secure location APIs provide geospatial context to data

Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale

Enterprise scale search for app development

Deploy high-quality AI models as APIs

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

Build rich communication experiences with the same secure platform capabilities used by Microsoft Teams

Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises datacenters

Build secure, scalable and highly available web front ends in Azure

Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure

Cloud-native, next-generation firewall to protect your Azure Virtual Network resources

Private access to services hosted on the Azure platform, keeping your data on the Microsoft network

Explore Azure load balancing services and find the best solution for your workloads using an easy-to-use service selection tool

Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity

Protect your applications from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

Host your DNS domain in Azure

Modern cloud CDN that delivers optimized experiences to your users anywhere

Optimise and automate branch to branch connectivity through Azure

A cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides powerful protection for web apps

Put cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics to work to help protect your enterprise

Build secure, scalable and highly available web front ends in Azure

Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets

Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity

Protect your applications from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

Private and fully managed RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines

A cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides powerful protection for web apps

Cloud-native, next-generation firewall to protect your Azure Virtual Network resources

Central network security policy and route management for globally distributed, software-defined perimeters

Protect at the speed and scale of AI with a generative AI-powered assistant

High-performance, highly durable block storage

Simple, secure and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares

Enterprise-grade Azure file shares, powered by NetApp

Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware

Massively scalable and secure object storage

Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge compute

Industry leading price point for storing rarely accessed data

Elastic SAN is a cloud-native storage area network (SAN) service built on Azure. Gain access to an end-to-end experience like your on-premises SAN

Manage persistent volumes for stateful container applications

Azure Managed Lustre is a fully managed, cloud based parallel file system that enables customers to run their high performance computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud

Simplify storage data management tasks at massive scale

Quickly create and deploy mission-critical web apps at scale

Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale

Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach

Enterprise scale search for app development

Add real-time web functionalities easily

Easily build real-time messaging web applications using WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern

Simple and secure location APIs provide geospatial context to data

A modern web app service that offers streamlined full-stack development from source code to global high availability

Build rich communication experiences with the same secure platform capabilities used by Microsoft Teams

Optimize app performance with high-scale load testing

Easily add real-time collaborative experiences to your apps with Fluid Framework

Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers

Enable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere

Provision Windows desktops and apps with VMware and Azure Virtual Desktop

Provision Windows desktops and apps on Azure with Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktop

Set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing and other scenarios

Streamline development with secure, ready-to-code workstations in the cloud