Are you not able to take any decision about, which public cloud service provider is going to be best for your business? There is no doubt that the AZURE and Amazon Web service (AWS) are the leaders in this market. You have to choose from these two options (because there is no other cloud provider that lies between AWS and AZURE in terms of public cloud) and understand which cloud service provider is best for your business needs in a cost-effective way.

 Here in this article, I am going to discuss the differences and similarities between AWS and AZURE so that you can determine which cloud services you need.

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) & AZURE

 AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, organizations, and companies on a paid subscription basis. Similarly AZURE is also a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data-centers. AWS is launched in 2006 whereas AZURE is launched in 2010.

 These factors mentioned below will help you to understand the basic main differences between AWS and AZURE-

 • Market Share-

 AWS is having 40% of public cloud market shares worldwide whereas AZURE is having only 30% of it.

 • Availability

 AWS and AZURE both are hosting in multiple locations worldwide but the differences occur in the numbers of regions and availability zones. AWS has 69 availability zones within 22 geographic Regions around the world, with 9 more Availability Zones and three more Regions in Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan. AZURE is having 54 availability zones covered in 140 countries.

 • Market Shares

 Microsoft reported that the commercial cloud business grew 41% in the first three months of 2019, to $9.6 billion, whereas AWS revenue approaches $8 billion in Q1, up 41 percent compared to last year.

• Popularity

 If we talk about worldwide popularity, AWS has been surpassing AZURE in the past 12 months. So we can say that AWS is more trending than AZURE.

 • Who’s Using them?

AWS is on the first place of the list as a cloud provider that has a bigger community support and trust across its clients. This is the reason why AWS has more high-profile customers like Netflix, Airbnb, Unilever, BMW, Samsung, and Xiaomi, etc. AZURE is also not that behind as almost 80% of the fortune companies have put their faiths in AZURE. Some of its major clients are Johnson Control, Polycom, Adobe, HP, Fujitsu, Apple & Honeywell, etc.

 • Services

 AWS and AZURE both cover like 100+ services. Some of the services that AWS covers are- Amazon RDS, Amazon Lambda, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC, Amazon Cloud9 and many more.

 Similarly AZURE covers services like Virtual machine, SQL Database, Visual Studio, Active Directory, Virtual network, AZURE monitor and many more.

 • Open Source Integration

 Amazon has had quite better relations with the open-source communities, leading to more open-source integration with AWS, which includes open-source tools like Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Github and it is also friendlier when it comes to Linux servers.

 In the case of AZURE, it offers native integration for windows development tools such as VBS, SQL database, Active Directory and so on. Organizations can run RedHat enterprise, Linux enterprise and Hadoop clusters in AZURE.

 • Pricing Model

 An AWS m3.large instance (21 CPU, 3.75 GB memory) costs $0.133/hour. Whereas Microsoft with the Medium VM (2 x 1.6GHz CPU, 3.5GB RAM) and costs $0.45/hour. So it is clear that AZURE is more expensive than AWS for computing.

 Job Opportunities

 Obviously, you would have been thinking which one (AWS developers or AZURE developers) is most promising as a carrier. Both have different features so we can't comment directly which is best, as a career option you can choose based on which field you are interested in and more comfortable. 

 So after the analyze and comparison on different factors, definitely AWS a preferable choice for a majority of the users. But what according to you, which one of them is better?