why your investment in azure cloud platform is a good bet

If you are looking to invest in a right cloud platform for your organization and weighing your options between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, we will nudge you in the direction of Azure.

We are here to highlight some of the unique advantages that Azure delivers even though it is a fairly new contender in a market that has been dominated by AWS.

Why Azure?

Similarities between AWS and Azure AWS and Azure Cloud Platform

share a lot of similarities in terms of the services they provide, their analytics technologies, storage and IOT services.

Let us try to understand these similarities.

Similarities in Services

Azure’s services can similarly be classified into four broad categories: Compute service, Data service, Network service, and App service. 

We can broadly categorize the services provided by AWS into four main groups: Compute, Databases, Storage & Content Delivery, and Networking. 

AWS offers powerful analytics through Hadoop (Elastic MapReduce) and data streaming in real-time via Kinesis. Azure also supports a Hadoop framework via HDInsight and can stream data in real-time via Apache Storm.

Similarities in Analytics

Similarities in IOT ServicesBoth AWS and Azure provide the necessary tools that facilitate Internet of Things and help customers develop newer Apps or create a high-performance environment for computing.

Similarities in Storage In the case of AWS, one can choose among

the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), Import /Export large volume data transfer service, Glacier archive backup or Storage Gateway. Microsoft’s storage options range from its core Azure Storage service, Azure Blob Block Storage to Table, Queue, and File storage. Additionally, one can avail the advantages of Site Recovery, Import/Export, and Azure Backup.

What Differentiates AWS and Azure Cloud? Despite all the similarities AWS

and Azure have a lot of differences.

Let us analyze some of the key differences between Azure and AWS.

Differences in Integrated services AWS’s biggest strength is its

offering of a large network of best- in- market vendors and an equally large database in analytics and warehouse markets.

By contrast, Azure offers integrated tools and solutions that allow a customer to build his/her infrastructure faster. 

The Microsoft advantage If you have an organization that is well

integrated with Microsoft products, then Azure should be your choice by default.

Azure is interoperable with Hyper-V making it desirable for those who run Microsoft’s Virtual Machines (VM) or rely heavily on Office 365 or Hyper-V platform.

Hybrid Cloud With respect to hybrid cloud

strategy, AWS trails behind Azure. 

Azure has been built on hybrid cloud model and hence will be a naturally preferred choice for organizations which prefer hybrid cloud.

Auto-scaling measuresWhile Azure is slowly ramping up and gaining visibility, AWS’s auto-scaling features with tools like DynamoDB NoSQL database and Lambda gives it an enormous strength to scale up in huge proportions.

Learning curve With Azure, you are putting to

use technology and resources that you already possess like Windows, Linux, VMs and tools like Visual Studio, GitHub, Hadoop, and Xcode.

AWS, on the other hand, has a steeper learning curve.

Other Services Azure provides certain critical advantages like having a disaster recovery plan and guaranteeing an advance announcement (prior to 90 days) regarding any changes to its SLA (service level agreement).

While Azure is still taking baby steps to match up the giant rival AWS, its unique advantages do measure up enough to be considered over AWS, especially for businesses that already rely on Microsoft technologies.

Verdict

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