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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Microsoft Azure

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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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

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    		N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Microsoft Azure
    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)
    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Microsoft Azure
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—The free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Microsoft Azure
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    I found Microsoft Azure to be very very complex for new users. The dashboard is very intimidating.

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud has more popularity and a bigger community to reach out to in case of any issues or help. Found Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to be the most recommended …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    AWS EC2 is far superior to Microsoft Azure, especially in up time, maintenance and cost.
    Incentivized
    Greg Schulz
    Sr. Consulting Analyst in Information Technology at StorageIO - www.storageio.com (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    AWS EC2 has been around awhile, it is very extensible, very flexible, very competitive, very evolving, very useful, very many options to do different things, however also meanwhile with hybrid cloud, we also are using Microsoft Azure VMs, as well as VMware vSphere ESXi among …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    AWS EC2 is fully interfaced with the Amazon Web Services platform and Google Compute Engine fits in more with Google. While either provider would have been fine, we are pretty much all built on top of AWS at this point barring some clients. It just flowed easier.
    Incentivized
    Gabriel Samaroo
    Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Amazon EC2 is the best cloud solution on the market. It has very competitive prices and an incredible number of services available for use. The billing is very efficient and details. EC2 is a great option for individuals, small groups, and large companies. As the needs of …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    In our eyes, Amazon has become the de-facto cloud provider. We have searched for other options, but none of them compare when you take documentation, training, support, ease of use all into account. Of all the cloud environments that our admins use daily, AWS is by far the …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    All the services above can be built on a server vs using a service. It allows teams that have more breadth of development to dive deep into the implementation and tailor the performance based on the needs they have specifically. In addition, we can tear down failed experiments …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Still ahead of the rest of the pack.
    Incentivized
    Ranjeet Shah
    Sr. Full Stack Engineer in Information Technology at Farmers Insurance (Entertainment, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Performs well and competitive price. Clear Documentation would be another factor. I have found sometimes documentations are confusing and misleading.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Security and cost are the major components which impact end users. We evaluated all the cloud platforms, and found AWS EC2 to be very cheap and more secure than GCP. Due to the improper configuration in AWS, we were compromised several times, then fixed it via some partners. …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    We selected EC2 because of the maturity of the platform, the ease of deployment and the completeness of Amazon's vision. EC2 by itself, stacks up rather evenly with the competition. Where AWS as a whole excels is in the integration. While you may start with EC2 instances, …
    Incentivized
    Bill Artinger
    Support Lead in Information Technology at TechFox (Internet, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    EC2 is far broader than Microsoft's Azure cloud and offers separation from Microsoft if needed. The product features paired with usability and notoriety are far superior to Microsoft's. I wish I could state the same regarding other Cloud Solutions but we have not explored many
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    EC2 is the original market leader and that is the reason why we chose to go with them, but Microsoft as well as others are catching up. It boils down to price and comfort level. The feature sets are mostly the same and the service will continue to be come commoditized as time …
    Incentivized
    Bill Artinger
    Lead Technical Engineer in Information Technology at TechFox (Computer Networking, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    EC2 was broader in its offering than Azure seemed to be. Azure documentation I found to be lacking in some respects. EC2's cost model is more supportive of our business model above Azure's. Azure has the benefit of being tightly integrated with Windows/Microsoft products but …
    Incentivized
    Valeri Karpov
    Software Engineer in Engineering at Booster Fuels (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    I currently use GitHub pages and Azure for projects, in addition to EC2. I use GitHub pages for my blog because it's free and convenient, and because my blog is a static site (HTML and client-side JS only) so there's no need for me to pay for an EC2 instance to host a web …
    Incentivized
    Anatoly Geyfman
    Founder & CEO in Information Technology at Carevoyance (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    We ended up not selecting EC2, we chose Google Compute Engine instead. Reason for us choosing GCE was due to:
    1. Ability to define custom compute units in GCE.
    2. More transparent pricing due to automatic usage discounts.
    Incentivized
    Craig Nash
    Sr. Solutions Architect in Engineering at FreeTheHustle.Com (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    When it comes to AWS EC2, the technical aspects are about equal to many of the other cloud services, but where AWS EC2 shines at is its management, and growth capabilities. You can start your web based business using AWS for literally zero start-up costs: you use the same …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Azure provides an environment that while at time is more pricey, the tight integration with our existing Microsoft-based infrastructure makes it difficult to beat.
    Incentivized
    Valery Mezentsau
    IT Department Manager in Information Technology at Acceptance Solutions Group (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Nowadays it is too hard to say why and how one cloud service is better than the other. IT is probably the question that combines a lot of different aspects like price, functionality, how it looks, ease of administration, size of the infrastructure. As for me, it is more …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Honestly in my opinion there is no one winner in this area. Both Azure and AWS are great in their own way. Pricewise it all depends in where you're from. Options are very similar and quality of what you get as well as the customer service are both great.
    Incentivized
    Aditya Sabadra
    Application Consultant in Information Technology at Capgemini (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    AWS is competitor and it's leading in cloud space with his wide sprawl of offerings and services. AWS is a ocean once you login you get everything on one console. AWS leads this space with all his offerings and capabilities. But Azure is not behind, it is competing and is …
    Incentivized
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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)Microsoft Azure
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Microsoft Azure
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    Microsoft Azure
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings8.818 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Microsoft Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    8.8
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.4
    (28 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.1
    (28 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)