Just how evident this latest move is occurs when Microsoft cloud platform director of marketing Nicole Herskowitz calls AWS out. In a blog post, Herskowitz writes: “It is worthwhile to note that the ...

GigaOm, in analyzing data from a number of tests, said: "Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) indicated 3.4x better performance on Windows over Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon ...

Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) indicated 3.4x better performance on Windows over Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).

In particular I don't understand VM-to-VM communication in Azure. Really I'm taking my AWS experience and projecting it onto Azure, because I don't know what I don't know.

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O’Brien says.

This acquisition resulted in Azure Site Recovery, which precisely does the same as AWS SMS for physical servers, VMware VMs, and Hyper-V VMs running in the datacenter.

Creation of images in VHD format to support Azure Stack. The managed service appears similar to the AWS EC2 Image Builder, said to " the building, testing, and deployment of Virtual Machine and ...

Whereas Windows Azure is a platform-as-a-service cloud, giving developers the tools they need to build and deploy Web applications, Amazon EC2 is primarily an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud ...

Microsoft Azure Stack, AWS Outposts and VMware vSphere are the leading private cloud platform technologies enterprises and SMBs are running workloads and applications on.