I'm in the process of comparing EC2 and Azure for an upcoming ERP project, and I thought I'd prevail upon the hive mind for opinions. I'm much more familiar with EC2, but since all the applications ...

Info-Tech Research Group's 2025 Cloud IaaS Data Quadrant Report highlights top cloud infrastructure platforms based on insights from 1796 verified user reviews on the firm's SoftwareReviews platform.

Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests were ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

While the Google App Engine cloud platform has trailed Amazon and Microsoft clouds in usage, it is nonetheless gaining traction among developers. That interest was bolstered by Google’s recent ...

On Sept. 30, 2008, Amazon.com Inc. announced the availability of a public beta version of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Windows Server 2003. The default Amazon Machine Image (AMI) creates a ...

Amazon, which announced a free level of service Oct. 21, today announced cuts in storage prices of as much as 19 percent. Last week Microsoft made a series of announcements that make Azure sound a lot ...