| Company | Owned by Amazon.com | Owned by Microsoft Corporation |
| Launch Year | Launched in 2006 | Launched in 2010 |
| Market Share | Largest market share in the cloud industry | Second largest market share in the industry |
| Regions | Operates in 25 geographic regions globally | Operates in 60+ regions globally |
| Services Offered | Offers a wide range of services and products | Offers a comprehensive set of services |
| across computing, storage, databases, | including computing, storage, networking, |
| networking, AI/ML, IoT, and more. | databases, AI/ML, IoT, and more. |
| Pricing Model | Pay-as-you-go pricing model | Pay-as-you-go pricing model |
| Certification Programs | Offers AWS Certified Solutions Architect, | Offers Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions |
| Developer, SysOps Administrator, etc. | Architect, Developer, Administrator, etc. |
| Compute Services | Includes EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), | Includes Virtual Machines, App Service, |
| Lambda, ECS (Elastic Container Service), etc. | Kubernetes Service, Functions, etc. |
| Storage Services | Offers S3 (Simple Storage Service), EBS | Offers Blob Storage, Azure Files, Disk |
| (Elastic Block Store), Glacier, etc. | Storage, etc. |
| Database Services | Provides RDS (Relational Database Service), | Provides Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, |
| DynamoDB, Aurora, etc. | SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. |
| Networking Services | Offers VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), | Offers Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, |
| Direct Connect, Route 53, etc. | Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, etc. |
| AI/ML Services | Provides SageMaker, Rekognition, Polly, etc. | Offers Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive |
| | Services, Azure Bot Service, etc. |
| IoT Services | Offers IoT Core, Greengrass, IoT Analytics, | Provides IoT Hub, IoT Central, IoT Edge, |
| Device Defender, etc. | IoT Solution Accelerators, etc. |
| Hybrid Cloud Solutions | AWS Outposts, Snowball Edge, Snowmobile, | Azure Arc, Azure Stack, Azure Stack HCI, |
| Storage Gateway, etc. | Azure VMware Solution, etc. |
| Enterprise Agreements | Provides Enterprise Agreements for large | Offers Enterprise Agreements for large |
| organizations | organizations |
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