When comparing Amazon EC2 vs Microsoft Azure, the Slant community recommends Microsoft Azure for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?” Microsoft Azure is ranked 13th while Amazon EC2 is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Microsoft Azure is:
Although it's a bit laborious to acquire, BizSpark gets startups a ton of free tools and usage.
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Pros
Pro One-year free tier
You get 750 hours per month of free t2.micro usage for the first year.
Pro New t2.nano tier makes it cost competitive
AWS has typically been much more expensive but the new tier brings them inline with a $5 per months starter.
Pro Excellent feature-set
The tools and features available on AWS are mind blowing. From blob store through load balancers, queuing and databases just for starters.
Pro BizSpark
Although it's a bit laborious to acquire, BizSpark gets startups a ton of free tools and usage.
Cons
Con Part of large infrastructure
Being part of huge Amazon services infrastructure, EC2 burrows you into bureaucracy of a large company, advertising other Amazon services, and making simple things look complicated.
Con Dashboard is weird to navigate
Looks pretty, but weird to navigate. The whole left to right thing is unintuitive. It's also very sluggish, or just doesn't load on a poor internet connection.