Compare AWS and Azure

Feature	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Windows Azure
Computing power
Virtual machines	Elastic Compute Cloud	Role Instances
High Performance Computing	Cluster Compute Instances	HPC Scheduler
MapReduce	Elastic Map Reduce	Hadoop on Azure
Dynamic scaling	Auto Scaling	Auto Scaling Application Block
Storage
Unstructured storage	Simple Storage Service	Azure Blob
Flexible entities	SimpleDB	Azure Tables
Block Level Storage	Elastic Block Store	Azure Drive
Archiving	Amazon Glacier
Storage Gateway	AWS Storage Gateway
Databases
RDBMS	Relational Database Service	SQL Azure
NoSQL	DynamoDB	Azure Tables
Caching
CDN	CloudFront	CDN
In-Memory	ElastiCache	Cache
Network
Load Balancer	Elastic Load Balancer	Fabric Controller / Traffic Manager
Hybrid Cloud	Virtual Private Cloud	Azure Connect
Peering	Direct Connect	-
DNS	Route 53	-
Messaging & Applications
Async Messaging	Simple Queue Service	Azure Queues
Push Notifications	Simple Notification Service	Service Bus
Bulk Email	Simple Email Service
Workflows	Amazon Simple Workflow Service
Search	Amazon CloudSearch
Monitoring
Resource monitoring	CloudWatch	System Center
Securiry
Identity Management	Identity Access Management	Azure Active Directory
Deployment
Resource creation	CloudFormation	-
Web Application Container	Elastic Beanstalk	Web Role