Question

4DCA:

Compare and contrast two difference cloud computing services (Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure). Explain the differences and the similarities and select your choice of providers if you had to make the decision for your business. Write up a comparison on the services offered

Answer 1

AWS	Ms Azure
It more acceptable of open source	It is restricted towards open source
It offers pay-as-you-go option but mostly on hourly basis	It also offers pay-as-you-go, even on per minute basis
It is cheaper for more computing power.	It is costlier but gives more flexibility in its payment options (has option of per minute charge)
It is highly compatible with Linux and Windows	More compatible with Windows, less so with Linux
It can handle structured and unstructured data but has a more evolved system for Big Data	It can also handle structured and unstructured data
One can access each machine	One can access machines through their domains and ports
Users have their roles defined with their respective functions.	It has many permission requirements
Greater compatibility with public offerings in cloud computing	Lesser compatibility with public (government's) offerings in cloud computing

Otherwise, both have competing services in each regard, be it computing services, pricing, storage, content delivery; and are matched neck to neck.

It will be very difficult to choose between either of them, but AWS seems slightly more alluring just because of its compatibility with open source and government's offerings.