| Azure | AWS |
| Azure was launched in 2010, a few years after AWS | It was launched in 2006 |
| 11-12% market share | about 31% share in the market |
| Provides integration with all Microsoft tools and open source support, provides Hybrid cloud, contains a broad set of features | Mature and extensive offerings with many features like monitoring, security, configuration, etc., open and flexible, has a better global reach |
| Compared to AWS, it is not so much enterprise-ready | Too many options making it challenging to use; needs extensive cost management |
| Follows on-demand pricing with per minute usage | On-demand pricing on per hour basis |
| Maximum memory in VM is 3800 GB | Maximum memory in VM is 3904 GB |
| Virtual servers are managed using virtual machines and scale sets | Virtual servers are managed using Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) |
| Docker container registry: Container registry | Docker container registry: using EC2 container registry |
| Blob storage | Simple Storage Services (S3) |
