Azure vs. AWS
Why Azure is the right choice
Why is Azure growing so quickly? Because organizations all over the world recognize Azure over AWS as the most trusted cloud with:
- The most regions
- Unmatched hybrid capabilities
- The strongest intelligence
Trust the cloud that helps protect your work
When you compare AWS vs. Azure, you’ll find that Azure has more comprehensive compliance coverage with 50 compliance offerings. To protect your organization, we embed security, privacy, and compliance into our development methodology. Azure has been recognized as the most trusted cloud for U.S. government institutions, earning a FedRAMP High authorization that covers 18 Azure services. Plus, Azure IP Advantage provides best-in-industry intellectual property protection, so you can focus on innovation, instead of worrying about baseless lawsuits.
“It felt like companies that needed to be compliant were being punished for it by having to pay more. Now, with Microsoft Cloud’s scalable and pay-as-you-go model, we can be competitive while offering world-class service, flexibility, and security.”
Ed Anderson, Managing Director, Dyrand Systems
Innovate with unmatched intelligence
Azure is the only public cloud that provides Cognitive APIs, Bots, Machine Learning, and Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) capabilities for developers and data scientists. Build intelligent solutions at scale by pairing these capabilities with powerful GPU-based compute to accelerate deep learning, enable HPC simulations, and conduct real-time data analytics using Azure N-Series Virtual Machines.
“Thousands of partners sign in to our platform every hour. The response time from the Face API is incredible, enabling us to verify our drivers without slowing them down.”
Dina Kovalev, Product Manager, Uber
Expand globally with more regions than any other cloud provider
Achieve global scale with 40 announced Azure regions. 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.
“By using Microsoft global datacenters, we’re able to move infrastructure for key applications and websites closer to the people who use them. It would have been extremely difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to set up this infrastructure on the other side of the world using Callaway-owned servers.”
Dan Cowles, Manager of Solution Development, Callaway Golf
Get IT flexibility with a truly consistent hybrid cloud
Optimize your existing assets by taking a hybrid approach to the cloud. Consistency 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. Azure offers hybrid consistency everywhere: in application development, management and security, identity management, and across the data platform. And you can even save up to 40 percent when migrating Windows Server virtual machines to Azure using the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit.
“If you look at some cloud providers, infrastructure is presented as a binary thing: it’s either cloud or nothing. By working with Microsoft, we can offer customers an end-to-end, hybrid data infrastructure on their own terms. We’re bringing together the best of both worlds.”
Prabal Acharyya, Worldwide Director of IoT, OSIsoft
Build on the leading cloud platform
We are the only cloud provider recognized in the industry as having leading solutions in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. And Azure PaaS platform services can help you be more productive and increase your ROI according to this Forrester Total Economic Impact study.
“We successfully moved our datacenter out of our physical building and into a combination of Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, reducing the number of virtual servers that we have to support and maintain, while not removing the applications that our business relies on. Our custom applications moved to Azure PaaS to gain resiliency and remove the need for server maintenance.”
Tom Grounds, CIO, Dillon Gage, Inc. of Dallas
Develop and deploy your choice of open source technology in the cloud
Develop and build the way you want in Azure, with your choice of tools, applications, and frameworks. Microsoft actively supports the open source community as a leading open source contributor on GitHub.
“Open source technologies were used, including PHP, MySQL, and Linux virtual machines. I was surprised to discover that Azure could easily accommodate Linux VMs and open source. ”
Tarek Emam, IT Manager, Ministry of Youth and Sports Egypt
Dig into big data with a complete business analytics solution
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 Cortana Intelligence Suite.
“Microsoft Cortana Intelligence capabilities are helping us filter the signal from the noise across large data sets, so we can focus on finding the real value in the data. Our vision of future digital capability will need to aggregate many sources of data and provide a platform for collaboration with customers.”
Nick Farrant, Senior Vice President, Rolls-Royce
Easily implement ready-to-use IoT
Use preconfigured solutions in Azure IoT Suite for the most common Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios such as remote monitoring and predictive maintenance. Azure IoT Suite is open and customizable by design, and 46 percent of Azure Certified for IoT devices run on Linux, Android, or other open source technologies.
“What we're talking about is delivering a degree of collaboration and visibility unheard of in the oil and gas industry. With sensors, software, and the cloud, these disparate assets can become part of a connected enterprise, powered at its core by a rich flow of data.”
Doug Weber, Business Manager, Rockwell Automation
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.
“Digital transformation is not an end, it’s a means for continual improvement. We use Azure cloud analytics to gather operational and customer insights, and we use Office 365 to share that information to drive business value. The future for Hershey is very exciting—with Microsoft cloud solutions, we are in control of our digital journey, connecting everyone to work better together and share the goodness.”
Carlos Amesquita, Chief Information Officer, The Hershey Company
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