Which is cheaper, Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage?

AWS is cheaper in 3 of 4 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 58.9%.

How do Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 6, 2026AWSAzure

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

Azure Wins

Ties

AWS wins 3 of 4 price comparisons, averaging 58.9% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000010/hr to $0.1200/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Storage workloads

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Best for API Request workloads

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Best for Fee workloads

Comparing Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage across 4 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon S3	Azure Azure Blob Storage	Diff	Cheapest
AmazonS3 - S3-API-Tier8	$0.0000/hr Requests-Tier8 ($0.02/mo)	$0.0000/hr HDD - HDD LRS Overflow Snapshot Usage ($0.01/mo)	+66.7%	Tie
Storage - Storage	$0.0010/hr TimedStorage-INT-DAA-ByteHrs ($0.72/mo)	$0.0025/hr Cool RA-GZRS - Cool RA-GZRS Blob Inventory ($1.82/mo)	+60.4%	AWS
API Request - API Request	$0.0100/hr Retrieval-ZIA ($7.30/mo)	$0.0150/hr Priority Object Replication - Priority Object Replication GRS Data Replicated ($10.95/mo)	+33.3%	AWS
Fee - Fee	$0.0300/hr Expedited-Retrieval-Bytes ($21.90/mo)	$0.1200/hr Premium - Premium ZRS Provisioned Base Unit ($87.60/mo)	+75.0%	AWS