Why Azure vs. AWS | Microsoft Azure (2024)

Provision Windows and Linux VMs in seconds

Enable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere

Migrate, modernize, and innovate on the modern SQL family of cloud databases

Build or modernize scalable, high-performance apps

Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes

Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs and AI services

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

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

Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience

Jump in and explore a diverse selection of today's quantum hardware, software, and solutions

Secure, develop, and operate infrastructure, apps, and Azure 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

Extract AI based insights from videos

Limitless analytics with unmatched time to insight

Design AI with Apache Spark™-based analytics

Govern, protect, and manage your data estate

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

Scalable, secure data lake for high-performance analytics

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 VMs in seconds

Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMs

Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes

Build and deploy Spring Boot applications with a fully managed service from Microsoft and VMware

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience

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

Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management

Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

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

Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes

Deploy and scale containers on managed Red Hat OpenShift

Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers

Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience

Run containerized web apps on Windows and Linux

Launch containers with hypervisor isolation

Deploy and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps

Build, store, secure, and replicate container images and artifacts

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.

Migrate, modernize, and innovate on the modern SQL family of cloud databases

Build or modernize scalable, high-performance apps

Build apps that scale with managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud

Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL

Modernize SQL Server applications with a managed, always-up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud

Fully managed, scalable MySQL Database

Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

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

Accelerate your data migration to Azure

Modernize Cassandra data clusters with a managed instance in the cloud

Deploy applications to the cloud with enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB

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 confidently with an exploratory test toolkit

Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts

Use your favorite DevOps tools with Azure

Full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network

Optimize app performance with high-scale load testing

Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates

Powerful and flexible environment to develop apps 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

Build, test, release, and monitor your mobile and desktop apps

Full observability into your applications, 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

Secure, develop, and operate infrastructure, apps, and Azure services anywhere

Cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics

Build and run innovative hybrid apps across cloud boundaries

Experience a fast, reliable, and private connection to Azure

Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on

Migrate, modernize, and innovate on the modern SQL family of cloud databases

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

Full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network

Consumer identity and access management in the cloud

Manage your domain controllers in the cloud

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 message 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

Use IoT spatial intelligence to create models of physical environments

Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices

Go from proof of concept to proof of value

Create, connect, and maintain secured intelligent IoT devices from the edge to the cloud

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

Making embedded IoT development and connectivity easy

Use an enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle

Add location data and mapping visuals to business applications and solutions

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

Govern, protect, and manage your data estate

Stay connected to your Azure resources—anytime, anywhere

Streamline Azure administration with a browser-based shell

Your personalized Azure best practices recommendation engine

Simplify data protection with built-in backup management at scale

Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency

Implement corporate governance and standards at scale

Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service

Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating outages

Full observability into your applications, 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 ability to scale

Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine, and Fairplay

Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach

Simplify migration and modernization with a unified platform

Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service

Accelerate your data migration to Azure

Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge compute

Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency

Create multi-user, spatially aware mixed reality experiences

Render high-quality, interactive 3D content with real-time streaming

Use IoT spatial intelligence to create models of physical environments

Build for mixed reality using AI sensors

Automatically align and anchor 3D content to objects in the physical world

Send push notifications to any platform from any back end

Build, test, release, and monitor your mobile and desktop apps

Create cloud-powered mobile apps faster

Add location data and mapping visuals to business applications and solutions

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

Enterprise scale search for app development

Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs and AI services

Create multi-user, spatially aware mixed reality experiences

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

Build multichannel communication experiences

Create your own private network infrastructure in the cloud

Deliver high availability and network performance to your apps

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

Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity

Host your Domain Name System (DNS) domain in Azure

Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach

Protect your Azure resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Rapidly ingest data from space into the cloud with a satellite ground station service

Experience a fast, reliable, and private connection to Azure

Extend Azure management for deploying 5G and SD-WAN network functions on edge devices

Centrally manage virtual networks in Azure from a single pane of glass

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

Cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics

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

Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets

Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity

Protect your Azure resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Fully managed service that helps secure remote access to your virtual machines

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

Protect your Azure Virtual Network resources with cloud-native network security

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

High-performance, highly durable block storage

Scalable, secure data lake for high-performance analytics

Simple, secure and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares

Enterprise-grade Azure file shares, powered by NetApp

Simplify data protection with built-in backup management at scale

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

Fast, reliable content delivery network with 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

Add location data and mapping visuals to business applications and solutions

Streamlined full-stack development from source code to global high availability

Build multichannel communication experiences

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 virtual labs for classes, training, hackathons, and other related scenarios

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