AWS to Azure Services Comparison

Trust the cloud that helps protect your work

When you compare AWS versus Azure, you’ll find that Azure has more comprehensive compliance coverage with more than 70 compliance offerings, and was the first major cloud provider to contractually commit to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To protect your organization, Azure embeds security, privacy, and compliance into its development methodology, and has been recognized as the most trusted cloud for U.S. government institutions, earning a FedRAMP High authorization that covers 18 Azure services. In addition, Azure IP Advantage provides best-in-industry intellectual property protection, so you can focus on innovation, instead of worrying about baseless lawsuits.

Reduce risk and complexity with real hybrid consistency

Optimize your existing assets by taking a hybrid approach to the cloud. Azure offers hybrid consistency everywhere—in application development, security and management, identity management, and across the data platform. This helps reduce the risk and cost of a hybrid cloud environment by enabling a common set of skills and offering portability of applications and workloads. Plus, save up to 40 percent when migrating Windows Server virtual machines to Azure using the Azure Hybrid Benefit.

Expand globally with the most regions

Achieve global scale with 42 announced Azure regions—more than any other cloud provider. Our priority on geographic expansion means you can choose the datacenter and region that’s right for you and your customers, with the performance and support you need, where you need it.

Build faster with the leading cloud platform

Rely on the only cloud provider recognized in the industry as having leading solutions in infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS)—in fact, according to this Forrester Total Economic Impact study, you’ll be more productive and increase your ROI with Azure PaaS services. Turn your ideas into solutions faster with more than 100 services, end-to-end management experiences, and app delivery with agile development practices.

Use any development tool or language

Develop and build the way you want in Azure, with your choice of tools, applications, and frameworks, like Jenkins and Chef. As a leading open source contributor on GitHub, Microsoft actively supports multiple open source community projects—such as Kubernetes, fluentd, and Helm—and has a unique partnership with Red Hat to offer coordinated, multi-lingual support across multiple products.

Innovate with unmatched intelligence

Build intelligent solutions at scale using cognitive APIs, bots, machine learning, and blockchain as a service (BaaS)capabilities that you’ll only find with Azure. By pairing these capabilities with powerful GPU-based compute, you’ll accelerate deep learning, enable high-performance computing simulations, and conduct real-time data analytics using NVIDIA GPUs in Azure.

Dig into big data with a complete advanced analytics solution

Bring limitless elastic scale to your applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Then, turn your data into a competitive advantage using business analytics solutions, such as demand forecasting and inventory optimization. Rapidly build, customize, and deploy best practices with solution templates and enable transformative insights on all your data with Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Easily implement ready-to-use IoT

Quickly start with the most common Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios, such as remote monitoring and predictive maintenance, using preconfigured solutions in Azure IoT Suite. Get the most comprehensive portfolio of IoT solutions, ranging from device and edge to data and the cloud, with Azure IoT. It’s open and customizable by design, and 46 percent of Azure Certified for IoT devices run on Linux, Android, or other open source technologies.

Manage and optimize cloud spend with a complete cost management solution

Optimize your cloud resources, manage departmental budgets, and allocate costs with free Azure Cost Management. Drive accountability through cost allocation and chargeback reports. Maximize resource utilization by right-sizing virtual machines and visualizing the cost-benefits of various purchasing options that Azure offers.

Take your Azure investments further with the Microsoft Cloud

Get even more value out of your investment in Azure by using one of our industry-leading SaaS services, including Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Azure shares many foundational capabilities with these services, such as identity management through Azure Active Directory and mobile device management through Intune.

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Everything in this post is taken from Microsoft Official Blog .