Microsoft Azure vs AWS

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

AWS leads in AI visibility (93 vs 84)

Microsoft Azure

LeaderCloud Infrastructure

Public Cloud Platform

Azure grew 33% YoY in Q2 FY2025, with AI services contributing 13 points of growth — the fastest-growing major cloud platform driven by OpenAI partnership.

AI VisibilityBeta

Overall Score

A84

Category Rank

#2 of 4

AI Consensus

52%

Trend

Per Platform

ChatGPT

Perplexity

Gemini

About

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform — the #2 global cloud infrastructure provider (approximately 22-23% market share) — offering over 200 cloud services including virtual machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Azure AI and Cognitive Services, Azure OpenAI Service, and the deep integration with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, GitHub, and the broader Microsoft software ecosystem. Listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: MSFT), Azure is part of Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud segment which generated $105+ billion in fiscal year 2024 revenue, with Azure representing the largest and fastest-growing component.

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AWS

LeaderCloud Infrastructure

Public Cloud Platform

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) AWS world's largest cloud at $115B FY2024 revenue with 30% market share; 200+ services with Bedrock AI platform and Trainium custom chips competing with Azure and Google Cloud for enterprise and AI infrastructure.

AI VisibilityBeta

Overall Score

A93

Category Rank

#1 of 4

AI Consensus

65%

Trend

stable

Per Platform

ChatGPT

Perplexity

Gemini

About

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing division of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) — headquartered in Seattle, Washington — operating the world's largest and most comprehensive cloud platform with 200+ services spanning compute (EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), databases (RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora), AI and machine learning (SageMaker, Bedrock, Rekognition, Polly), networking (VPC, Route 53, CloudFront CDN), developer tools (CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline), and industry-specific cloud services for healthcare, financial services, and government. AWS generated $115 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 (+18% year-over-year) and $33 billion in Q3 2025 revenue (+20% year-over-year), maintaining approximately 30% global cloud infrastructure market share as the largest of the three dominant hyperscale cloud providers.

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