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Amazon EC2 vs Microsoft Azure Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to facilitate web-scale computing for developers.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform designed to help organizations run virtual desktops and applications in the cloud. It offers businesses with built-in migration tools, which enables administrators to migrate remote desktop services (RDS) and Windows server desktops to various devices.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.7

173

129

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

83%

would recommend this app

4.6

1.9K

1.2K

637

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

79%

would recommend this app

Pros

“Amazon EC2 offers scalable, on-demand computing power with flexible instance types, making it easy to tailor resources to workloads efficiently.”

Swaibu B.

AWS Solution Architecture

“So this allows for the most cost-efficient solution currently in my situation and allows for the ramp up in resources when necessary as well.”

Terence Z.

Technical Support Specialist

“Amazon EC2 comes with wide range of compute capacity and processors including graviton which are cheaper bundled with performance”

vidya p.

Cloud engineer

Pros

“We use it for our charity's CRM as it gives us enterprise-level cloud infrastructure, reliability and scalability, plus we get charity pricing and credits that make technology we'd normally never be able to afford for a 100% non-profit organisation like ours.”

Mark C.

Board Trustee Membership Secretary

“Microsoft Azure gives us the ability to manage devices (corporate or BYOD), utilize Conditional Access Policies, and also provide other security measures in order to provide and sustain a stable work and network environment.”

Clyde W.

System Adminstrator

“Managing user identities, conditional access policies, and device enrollment all from one portal has made life a lot easier from an IT standpoint. Once everything is configured correctly, it's pretty reliable, and having cloud-based identity management means we're not dependent on an on-prem domain controller for everything.”

Blake A.

IT Technician

Cons

“The UI is little complex as I get to any options when I was just learning it got me too much confused.”

Shashank A.

Intern

“It was not beginner friendly had many complex terminology.”

Pratik S.

MERN stack developer

“When you stop and restart an instance on EC2, the IP address changes constantly, which makes setting up DNS records quite inconvenient.”

Nujan S.

Managing Director

Cons

“Token caching and SSO behavior on shared workstations has also caused some headaches that took a while to dig into and weren't well documented.”

Blake A.

IT Technician

“We were nearly caught out by the costs escalating too quickly, even with the charity discounts we had from MS, when we started adding services we thought we needed!”

Mark C.

Board Trustee Membership Secretary

“The platform is already cluttered with numerous features and options and during most times admins feels overhelmed with tech features.”