{"id":5024,"date":"2020-09-01T04:17:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2024-05-21T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:57:58","slug":"cloud-wars-aws-vs-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbat.com\/blog\/cloud-wars-aws-vs-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Wars: AWS vs. Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud computing is radically altering the way business manage data. Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbat.com\/\">IT<\/a> resources over the internet, with pay per use pricing. This saves millions of dollars for companies in investment in buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizations of all type, size, and industry are using the cloud for an array of use cases such as data backup, disaster recovery, email, virtual desktops, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbat.com\/software-development\">software development<\/a> and testing, big data analytics, and customer facing web applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbat.com\/technologies\/cloud-computing\">Cloud computing<\/a><\/strong> market is led by Amazon AWS followed by Microsoft\u2019s Azure. But that lead is starting to slip as other firms like Google Cloud Platform make moves to boost their cloud computing offerings. While keeping in mind the concerns of any company wishing to shift to cloud computing like maintaining control of own data, Data Security and privacy, Transparency, and compliance let us compare between the two cloud giants and the advantages offered by each.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-1-1024x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2456\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pricing: AWS vs Azure<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud service pricing undergoes frequent changes, so to be sure kindly consult the Azure and AWS websites for the current official price rates. To have a through exploration of the prices for all the services relevant to your workloads, there are pricing calculators available for both AWS and Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fig-1-1024x471.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2457\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fig-2-1024x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2458\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fig-3-1024x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2459\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fig-4-1024x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2460\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Advantages and Disadvantages of AWS and Azure<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.verbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-2-1024x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2461\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On comparison we can find that both Azure and\nAWS offer a broad and deep set of capabilities with global coverage. Both are solid performers\nwith equivalence in almost 99% of the use cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picking one from the lot is more of a business\ndecision and will depend on the requirements of the organization.&nbsp; For instance, if an organization requires a\nrobust Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider or needs Windows integration,\nAzure would be the advisable choice, whereas an organization looking for\ninfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS ) or diverse set of tools then AWS is the\nbest choice for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently another criterion for making decision is how much built-in analytics tools are available on these platforms. 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