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title: "Quick Redis Benchmark: AWS vs. Azure"
description: "A quick comparison of AWS vs. Azure."
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# Quick Redis Benchmark: AWS vs. Azure

A quick comparison of AWS vs. Azure.

Do not consider this a complete benchmark, this is just a quick comparison I ran in 5 or so spare minutes on a Saturday. Comparing `m1.medium` on AWS to `Medium` on Azure, I selected the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS disk image, ran these commands:

Which automatically started the redis server in the background, running a quick benchmark gave us:

### AWS

- m1.medium type
- 1 vCPU, 2 ECU
- 3.75gb RAM
- $0.12/hr on demand
- $0.028/hr reserved one year

### Azure

- Medium type
- 2 core
- 3.5gb RAM
- $0.12/hr on demand
- $0.08/hr reserved one year

### Conclusion

While not an exact 1-1 comparison, based on the roughly equivalent instance type Microsoft is positioning: Azure is about 2.5-3x as fast, and a great deal if you prefer on-demand. Once you start reserving instances, Azure gets a _little_ more expensive (about 2.5x).