Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has become a core foundation for organizations scaling operations and supporting increasingly complex workloads. By providing on-demand access to computing, ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests were ...

The 2026 Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Data Quadrant Report from Info-Tech Research Group highlights top providers that help organizations deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud official Tim O’Brien says. Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s ...

I'm in the process of comparing EC2 and Azure for an upcoming ERP project, and I thought I'd prevail upon the hive mind for opinions. I'm much more familiar with EC2, but since all the applications ...

On Sept. 30, 2008, Amazon.com Inc. announced the availability of a public beta version of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Windows Server 2003. The default Amazon Machine Image (AMI) creates a ...

Info-Tech Research Group's 2025 Cloud IaaS Data Quadrant Report highlights top cloud infrastructure platforms based on insights from 1796 verified user reviews on the firm's SoftwareReviews platform.

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The 2026 Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Data Quadrant Report from Info-Tech Research Group highlights top ...

While the Google App Engine cloud platform has trailed Amazon and Microsoft clouds in usage, it is nonetheless gaining traction among developers. That interest was bolstered by Google’s recent ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...