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Azure has been playing catcup with aws for quite some time now.

And it shows. A year ago I wouldn't even consider Azure as a platform. Now I'm starting to wonder if AWS is worth it.

They've been iterating like crazy.

All I can add is that, from a fairly n00by point of view, Windows Azure is easy to use and clear, AWS is messy and difficult. Also the free trial of Azure is brilliant, the AWS is so crippled it makes it feel like their whole service is lame.

Nail on the head. I eveluated both of them a month ago, and while functionality-wise thay seemed pretty much alike, usability-wise Azure kinda owned AWS all over the place.

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