☁️Azure, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud Comparison☁️

What is Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud?

Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud are the public cloud services that organizations widely use in their daily operations. The platforms allow the usage of basic computing facilities, along with storage and networking capabilities. Users are empowered with security compliance, autoscaling, and identity management features.

Cloud Computing’s enhanced capabilities and outstanding features have resulted in more matured analytical offerings. The users are now able to take better and reliable results with improved statistical information availability. In this article, we will compare the three most popular public cloud service platforms i.e. Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud.

Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud Comparison

Microsoft Azure

Amazon AWS

Alibaba Cloud

Pricing

Pay as you go model

Cheap. Combination of Pay as you go model and Per second billing

Regions Availability

Available in 140 countries/regions

Broader geographic coverage worldwide

Availability in handful regions including the US and Europe.

Computation

Azure shared app service, Azure batch, Azure auto scale, Azure functions, Azure web apps, Azure Cloud services

Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Lightsail, Auto Scaling, AWS Batch

Alibaba ECS, Web Hosting, Dedicated Host, Simple Application Server, Auto scaling, Batch compute

Storage

Azure Bob Storage, Azure File System, Azure Archive Storage, Azure Cool Storage, Azure Storsimple

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Amazon Storage Gateway

Object Storage Service, Block Storage, NAS File Storage, Object Storage Archive

Database

Azure SQL Database, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Time Series Insights, Azure RedisCache, Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB. Amazon Neptune, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticache

ApsaraDB for RDS MySQL, ApsaraDB for MongoDB, HiTSDB, ApsaraDB for Redis, Alibaba MaxCompute ODPS

Migration Services

Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Websites Migration Assistant, Azure Import/Export, Azure Data Box

AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Import/Export, AWS Snowball, AWS Snowmobile

Data Transmission Service, Data Transport

Networking

Azure DNS, Azure Traffic Manager

Amazon Route 53, Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow

Alibaba Cloud DNS

Pros and Cons of Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS & Alibaba Cloud

Brands	Pros	Cons
Microsoft Azure	High Availability Security Scalability Cost Effectiveness	Requires Management Requires Platform Expertise
Amazon AWS	Easy to Use No Capacity Limits Provides Speed and Agility Secure and Reliable	Limitations of Amazon EC2 Security Limitations Technical Support Fee General Cloud Computing Issues
Alibaba Cloud	Easy to use Stable Cost Effective	Beta functions Payment and Checkout Issues

Which is the popular choice?

Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Alibaba Cloud provide a broad range of computing, storage, networking, and other services. Among them, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure have a better geographic reach, while Alibaba Cloud is likely to grow in the future. The cost and the pricing models of Alibaba Cloud is cheaper and creates an opportunity for the customers to get the best possible deal.

Reference by: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Alibaba Cloud and Computer Analysts & Recovery Experts Pte. Ltd.

☁️Azure, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud Comparison☁️
June 15, 2021