Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its global e-commerce network. Amazon S3 can be employed to store any type of object, which allows for uses like storage for Internet applications, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data archives, data lakes for analytics, and hybrid cloud storage.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

*Pricing varies according to region, all of the prices displayed here are for the US East (Virginia)

Tiers

AWS Free Tier - 5GB of storage, , 20k GET requests, 20k PUT, COPY, LIST or POST requests, 15 GB of Data Transfer Out monthly.

S3 Standard - General purpose storage for any type of data, typically used for frequently accessed data

S3 Intelligent - Tiering - Automatic cost savings for data with unknown or changing access patterns

S3 Glacier - For long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to 12 hours

Example Price

Using the S3 Standard, 100GB storage ($2,3) 100k PUT requests ($0,50), 100k SELECT requests ($0,50) $3,2 USD

Consumption Plan

Execution Time $0,000016GB-s (400k GB-s)

Total Executions $0,20 per million executions (1M free executions)

Premium Plan

vCPU duration $129.29 vCPU/month

Memory duration Memory $8.979 GB/month

For a pricing example, you can check here.​

Onboarding

Wide documentation with tutorials.

Scalability

Automatically done utilizing serverless technology.

Regions

United States, Africa, Asia Pacific, China, Europe, South America, Middle East.

Backups

All the AWS Backup Storage options, which includes Object Storage, Hybrid Storage, Networking and more.

Security

PlanetScale is SOC 2 Type II compliant. All data is stored encrypted at rest throughout the PlanetScale platform. This helps mitigate the risk of unintentional or malicious 

Onboarding
Access to the rich and varied documentation of Azure. Easy to start.

​Scalability

Auto-scalability is built-in.

Regions

Azure Serverless Storage is available on all the platforms that have Azure available, such as the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and more to come.

​Backups 

Requires Azure Cloud Backup Services. Very effective and covers a wide variety of aspects from backups.

​Security
Has to be manually added, but gives free-reign in terms of configurations and settings.

Amazon S3 has various features you can use to organize and manage your data in ways that support specific use cases, enable cost efficiencies, enforce security, and meet compliance requirements.

• ​Storage management and monitoring
  
• Storage analytics and insights
  
• Access management and security
  
• Access management and security
  
• S3 Object Lambda
  
• Query in place
  

Use fully managed, end-to-end Azure serverless solutions to boost developer productivity, optimize resources, and accelerate the pace of innovation.

• ​Increase developer velocity
  
• Boost team performance
  
• Improve organizational impact
  
• Serverless functions
  
• Serverless Kubernetes
  
• Architect scalable e-commerce web app
  
• Bursting from AKS with ACI