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AWS & Windows Azure – Side by Side Comparison

on February 14, 20129:45 am in Analysis by

Many customers evaluating Public Cloud will invariably consider Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. With both the stacks adding new services at a rapid pace, it becomes hard to understand how the features stack up. This is an attempt to put them side by side and do a quick comparison of the features. We will be updating this grid to reflect the latest additions to either stacks.

Clicking on the feature will take you the homepage of each service. Hope you find this useful!

FeatureAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Windows Azure
ComputeVMElastic Compute CloudRole Instances
HPCCluster Compute InstancesHPC Scheduler
MapReduceElastic Map ReduceHadoop on Azure
Dynamic ScalingAuto ScalingAuto Scaling Application Block
StorageUnstructured StorageSimple Storage ServiceAzure Blob
Flexible EntitiesSimpleDBAzure Tables
Block Level StorageElastic Block StoreAzure Drive
DatabaseRDBMSRelational Database ServiceSQL Azure
NoSQLDynamoDBAzure Tables
CachingCDNCloudFrontCDN
In-MemoryElastiCacheCache
NetworkingLoad BalancerElastic Load BalancerFabric Controller / Traffic Manager
Hybrid ConnectivityVirtual Private CloudAzure Connect
PeeringDirect ConnectNone
DNS Route 53None
MessagingAsync MessagingSimple Queue ServiceAzure Queues
Push NotificationsSimple Notification ServiceService Bus
Bulk EmailSimple Email ServiceNone
MonitoringResource MonitoringCloudWatchSystem Center
SecurityFederated IdentityIdentity Access ManagementAzure Active Directory
DeploymentResource CreationCloudFormationNone
Web Application ContainerElastic BeanstalkWeb Role

- Janakiram MSV, Chief Editor, CloudStory.in




Comments

  • Jack

    How does the Compute instance performance between AWS and Azure compare?  Is there a “Passmark” score for an Azure instance?  We know that a single AWS “ECU” is equal to ~400 Passmark.  How does Azure’s virtual cores compare?  This would be helpful in getting a true compute cost comparison.