Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Cloud Comparison
February 1, 2015
Grazed from Tom’s IT PRo. Author: William Van Winkle.
Operating officially since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is closing in on its 10-year anniversary. Some might call that old, while others would say that Amazon has merely had that much more time to build an incredible head start over its competition. One of those competitors, Microsoft Azure, entered the market in 2010. But by this time had Amazon already sprinted ahead to an insurmountable lead?
Microsoft doesn’t think so, clearly, and has been building its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering out from AWS’ shadow ever since. Of course, insurmountable leads and shadows are largely irrelevant to your own enterprise. These companies are both global titans with the resources to make their respective cloud services as robust and expansive as they want…
With server farms the size of actual farms, both are equipped to meet the needs of enterprises of virtually any size. But while the question: "So which of the two is better for my business?" is a simple one, the answer may be a little more complicated…
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