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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Azure App Service

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    Azure App Service

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AThe Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

    $9.49

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Azure App Service
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    Shared Environment for dev/test
    $9.49
    per month
    Basic Dedicated environment for dev/test
    $54.75
    per month
    Standard Run production workloads
    $73
    per month
    Premium Enhanced performance and scale
    $146
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Azure App Service
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains.
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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Azure App Service
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure App Service
    Azure App Service will give you a very solid and strong platform to deploy your applications. It gives you great interfaces to manage those applications either through a Web Portal or the Azure command-line interface. However, I consider Azure overall to be very complex and …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Azure App Service
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure App Service
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    Azure App Service
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation9.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Azure App Service
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    -
    Ratings
    Azure App Service
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings4.14 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings5.14 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Azure App Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)