Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure
- GPUs
- 14 9
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.53/hr $0.34/hr
- Price wins
- 4/5 1/5
Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 4 of the 5 GPUs both rent, Microsoft Azure on 1. Amazon Web Services carries 5 more GPUs.
Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services.
Best for: Teams already building on AWS services
Hyperscaler that rents GPU virtual machines on demand, reserved or spot, integrated with Azure's managed AI and enterprise cloud services.
Best for: Microsoft-centric enterprise AI workloads
Price by GPU
The 5 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Microsoft Azure | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.88/hr | $11.06/hr | 61% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $7.91/hr | $10.60/hr | 34% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $3.43/hr | $4.10/hr | 19% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB | $2.74/hr | $3.40/hr | 24% |
| NVIDIA T4 16GB | $0.53/hr | $0.34/hr | 53% |
Prices last checked: Amazon Web Services 1 Oct 2026, Microsoft Azure 1 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Amazon Web Services 9
Company facts
| Fact | Amazon Web Services | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Seattle, WA | Redmond, WA |
| Type | Hyperscaler | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2006 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 14 | 9 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure?
- Amazon Web Services: Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services. Microsoft Azure: Hyperscaler that rents GPU virtual machines on demand, reserved or spot, integrated with Azure's managed AI and enterprise cloud services.
- Is Amazon Web Services cheaper than Microsoft Azure?
- Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 4 of the 5 GPUs both rent, Microsoft Azure on 1. Amazon Web Services carries 5 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB cost on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure?
- Amazon Web Services charges $6.88 per GPU-hour and Microsoft Azure charges $11.06 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure?
- 5 GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB, NVIDIA T4 16GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
