AZ
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machines, Managed Disks and Azure Database for MySQL.
The natural fit for teams already standardized on Microsoft tooling — Active Directory, .NET, Windows workloads — with pricing that updates live and needs no authentication to query.
Best for
Teams with existing Microsoft/enterprise agreements or .NET-heavy stacks.
How it bills
On-demand hourly per VM size, tiered egress, no free egress allowance.
Strengths
- +Deep enterprise/Microsoft ecosystem integration
- +Retail Prices API needs zero authentication
Trade-offs
- −VM naming/sizing is less intuitive than AWS or GCP