Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud vs Azure Storage
A side-by-side look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Azure Storage. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EC2 is a cloud computing service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to launch virtual server instances that run on Amazon's infrastructure. EC2 enables scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine.
Azure Storage
Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed cloud storage service that provides scalable cloud storage for structured and unstructured data. It offers blob storage for images, documents, and other files, queue storage for reliable messaging, table storage for NoSQL storage, and disk storage for virtual machines.