Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform and the second-largest public cloud provider, holding ~24% market share in 2026. Azure offers over 200 cloud services including compute, storage, databases, AI, analytics, and IoT, across 60+ regions worldwide.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the world's largest cloud infrastructure provider, launched by Amazon in 2006, offering over 200 cloud services spanning compute, storage, databases, machine learning, containers, serverless, and IoT, with 30+ availability regions and 100+ edge locations.
