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Microsoft Azure vs Oracle Cloud

Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud offer 9 of the 12 services in the site's service map. This page lines them up one service at a time, says where one has no equivalent and why, and shows what the example workloads cost on each at public on-demand list prices.

Service by service

Each row is one job in the example workloads. The service shown is the closest equivalent the map has chosen for that cloud; where there is none, the row says so and gives the reason. Equivalence is chosen carefully: services are compared only when they bill in comparable ways.

Microsoft Azure vs Oracle Cloud, service by service
Job	Microsoft Azure	Oracle Cloud
IoT device gateway	Azure IoT Hub (Standard tier)	OCI Internet of Things Platform
Event streaming	Azure Event Hubs (Standard tier)	OCI Streaming
Stream processing	Azure Stream Analytics (Standard V2)	Oracle Stream Analytics (OCI GoldenGate)
Time-series database	Azure Data Explorer	Not offered Oracle has no managed time-series database. The nearest options, Autonomous Database and NoSQL Database, are general-purpose and are priced and sized differently.
Object storage	Azure Blob Storage (Hot, LRS)	OCI Object Storage (Standard)
General-purpose VM	Azure Virtual Machines (Dsv5)	OCI Compute (VM.Standard.E5.Flex)
Edge runtime	Azure IoT Edge	Not offered Oracle has no managed IoT edge runtime. Roving Edge Infrastructure is rugged hardware for disconnected sites, not software for gateways.
Managed PostgreSQL	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server (General Purpose)	OCI Database with PostgreSQL
HTTP load balancer	Azure Application Gateway (Standard v2)	OCI Flexible Load Balancer
Internet data transfer	Azure bandwidth (Microsoft network routing)	OCI outbound data transfer
SQL on the data lake	Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool	Not offered Oracle has no SQL service that bills per amount of data scanned. Autonomous AI Lakehouse can query object storage, but it is billed per ECPU-hour while the database runs, which is a different model from pay-per-scan, so the two are not compared.
Batch data transform	Azure Data Factory mapping data flows (General Purpose)	OCI Data Integration

Where they differ

Both offer a service for 9 of 12 jobs.
Microsoft Azure offers Azure Data Explorer for "Time-series database"; Oracle Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Oracle has no managed time-series database. The nearest options, Autonomous Database and NoSQL Database, are general-purpose and are priced and sized differently.
Microsoft Azure offers Azure IoT Edge for "Edge runtime"; Oracle Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Oracle has no managed IoT edge runtime. Roving Edge Infrastructure is rugged hardware for disconnected sites, not software for gateways.
Microsoft Azure offers Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool for "SQL on the data lake"; Oracle Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Oracle has no SQL service that bills per amount of data scanned. Autonomous AI Lakehouse can query object storage, but it is billed per ECPU-hour while the database runs, which is a different model from pay-per-scan, so the two are not compared.
Oracle Cloud: IoT device gateway (can't be sized) is offered, but the vendor publishes too little to size it from the workload inputs.

Example workload totals

Monthly totals for the site's example factories, from the same calculation as the estimator, at Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud on-demand list prices in USD, as of 2 Nov 2026. A total is marked incomplete when a cloud lacks a service or a price for the workload; an incomplete total is partial, is not comparable, and is never called the lower one.

Microsoft Azure vs Oracle Cloud, example workload totals
Example	Region	Microsoft Azure	Oracle Cloud	Lower complete total
Small factory: 100 devices	India (Mumbai / Pune)	$931	$731 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Small factory: 100 devices	US East (Virginia / S. Carolina)	$922	$731 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devices	India (Mumbai / Pune)	$1,618	$802 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devices	US East (Virginia / S. Carolina)	$1,436	$802 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Multi-site: 10,000 devices	India (Mumbai / Pune)	$9,188	$1,531 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Multi-site: 10,000 devices	US East (Virginia / S. Carolina)	$8,825	$1,531 (incomplete)	Not comparable

Regions compared

India (Mumbai / Pune): Microsoft Azure centralindia, Oracle Cloud ap-mumbai-1.
US East (Virginia / S. Carolina): Microsoft Azure eastus, Oracle Cloud us-ashburn-1.

Price catalog

Microsoft Azure is not in the price catalog yet. Oracle Cloud is not in the catalog yet. Learn more on the Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud pages, or estimate your own workload.

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