AWS vs Azure: The Battle for IaaS Supremacy

  If you, like so many efficiency- and cost-conscious organizations are considering migrating to the cloud, you’ve probably already shortlisted the top cloud and IaaS Service providers, namely: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Providers of GCP. Given that AWS and Azure have the lion’s share of the market—with ~32% and `19% respectively— and have proven themselves repeatedly, chances are either of these can suit your needs. When it comes to basic capabilities, such as autoscaling, elastic compute, and storage, there are some distinct differences that one should take into account when making a decision. Let’s take a look at each one’s capabilities in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ecosystem—viz: infrastructure hardware and software, hosting features, applications, database service, and pricing strategies. By  Gartner’s estimates  demand for Iaas, which went from ~USD50 billion in 2020 to ~USD64 billion in 2021, is massive and growing AWS Pros Spread of services One of AWS’s