Which cloud platform to choose- Microsoft Azure vs AWS?
In the present scenario, there are two computing giants in cloud hosting India- Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Both are providing solutions to fulfill the needs of businesses of all sizes. That’s why it is difficult to understand which option is more suitable for your business- Microsoft Azure Cloud or AWS? Read further to know.
However,
both of these cloud service providers, Microsoft and Amazon, have been entitled
as leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for IaaS, PaaS Application and cloud
storage. There are above 90,000 new Azure customer subscriptions every month
and about 500 companies are using it. AWS provides a portfolio of storage,
computing, content delivery and networking services. It delivers services for
customer-side applications and websites.
AWS and Azure have some basic similarities such as easily spinning up secure remote access, a new virtual server and VPN capabilities for private clouds, it’s where they are different that provides you a window to get insights on whether to choose AWS or Azure.
Azure or AWS: What sets them apart?
AWS has many deployment options, application services, and stream analytics for real time data stream processing in cloud. Gartner says that AWS has the capacity of 12 – 14 competitors combined that too together with Azure and Google. Although AWS owns the capacity lead from its competitors, but the biggest advantage Azure has over AWS is its connections with its clients.
Let’s discuss some more characteristics to let you decide which cloud option you should choose-
1. Productivity
You’ll be productive and effective with AWS, once you get expertise in it.
Including Active Directory, Windows and Linux, virtual machines and containers, Azure provides you access to the similar tools that many of businesses trust and use today. It also ties into toolsets such as GitHub, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Hadoop and XCode, and also gives a bundle of third party solutions, tools, and partner-developed applications via Azure Marketplace.
2. Rapid app development
When you’re with AWS, it’s easy to use open source tools that run on Linux third party tools for instance web accelerator Varnish Cache.
Azure’s integrated tools, solutions and services let you to build enterprise applications faster and for any device or platform. Azure supports the broadest selection of devices, operating systems, databases, frameworks, languages and tools that’s why anyone can work with it. No need to manage virtual infrastructure with Azure.
3. Applications requirements
Amazon Web Services offers an extensive range of fully managed database services to suit your application requirements. Just a few clicks and they are launched in minutes. It includes Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon DynamoDB, and so on.
With Azure, hybrid applications can be built easily. It facilitates the use of existing datacenter resources to meet today’s business necessities. Without any complexity of tradeoffs and workarounds, you can do this within azure itself!
Hybrid connections provided by azure are virtual private networks, content delivery networks, Express route connections etc. that ensure confidentiality and privacy between your infrastructure and datacenters.
The tables shown below depict the basic comparison between the clouds:
- From networking point of view:
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