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Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure offer 12 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.

JobAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Azure
IoT device gatewayAWS IoT CoreAzure IoT Hub (Standard tier)
Event streamingAmazon Kinesis Data Streams (on-demand)Azure Event Hubs (Standard tier)
Stream processingAmazon Managed Service for Apache FlinkAzure Stream Analytics (Standard V2)
Time-series databaseAmazon Timestream for InfluxDBAzure Data Explorer
Object storageAmazon S3 StandardAzure Blob Storage (Hot, LRS)
General-purpose VMAmazon EC2 (M6i)Azure Virtual Machines (Dsv5)
Edge runtimeAWS IoT GreengrassAzure IoT Edge
Managed PostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL (M6i, gp3)Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server (General Purpose)
HTTP load balancerApplication Load BalancerAzure Application Gateway (Standard v2)
Internet data transferAWS data transfer outAzure bandwidth (Microsoft network routing)
SQL on the data lakeAmazon AthenaAzure Synapse serverless SQL pool
Batch data transformAWS Glue ETL jobsAzure Data Factory mapping data flows (General Purpose)

Where they differ

  • Both offer a service for 12 of 12 jobs.

Example workload totals

Monthly totals for the site's example factories, from the same calculation as the estimator, at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure 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.

ExampleRegionAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureLower complete total
Small factory: 100 devicesIndia (Mumbai / Pune)$547$931Amazon Web Services
Small factory: 100 devicesUS East (Virginia / S. Carolina)$482$922Amazon Web Services
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devicesIndia (Mumbai / Pune)$1,024$1,618Amazon Web Services
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devicesUS East (Virginia / S. Carolina)$925$1,436Amazon Web Services
Multi-site: 10,000 devicesIndia (Mumbai / Pune)$5,431$9,188Amazon Web Services
Multi-site: 10,000 devicesUS East (Virginia / S. Carolina)$4,991$8,825Amazon Web Services

Regions compared

  • India (Mumbai / Pune): Amazon Web Services ap-south-1, Microsoft Azure centralindia.
  • US East (Virginia / S. Carolina): Amazon Web Services us-east-1, Microsoft Azure eastus.

Price catalog

Amazon Web Services has 3,007 SKUs in the price catalog. Microsoft Azure is not in the catalog yet. Learn more on the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure pages, or estimate your own workload.

Pair: aws-vs-azure. How prices are read.