Introduction Today we’re going to do a head to head comparison of two public clouds: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The comparison is driven by a personal motivation to see more competitive information on public clouds, and a desire to build a framework to allow future cloud comparisons. To keep things simple, I’ve summarized the results in a Consumer Reports-like style. Disclaimer: my experiences with Azure have been limited to a few proof of concepts over the last 18 months. But ha