Object storage · head to head · checked 8 August 2026
AWS S3 vs Azure Blob Storage
2 object storage offers from the two, side by side: what each plan includes, what it costs (for a reference workload of 100 GB stored and 200 GB downloaded a month), and where the price comes from.
AWS S3
from $11.30/mo
Standard · 1 plans listed
Azure Blob Storage
from $10.78/mo
Hot (LRS) · 1 plans listed
Which is cheaper, AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage?
Azure Blob Storage's cheapest listed plan is Hot (LRS) at $10.78/mo; AWS S3's is Standard at $11.30/mo. The price shown is for a reference workload of 100 GB stored and 200 GB downloaded a month.
How many object storage offers does each offer here?
We list 1 for AWS S3 and 1 for Azure Blob Storage, each checked against the provider's own pricing page.
AWS S3
Everything from AWS S3Standardapprox
- Storage
- $0.023 per GB a month
- Egress
- $0.090 per GB
- Free tier
- First 100 GB/mo egress free (shared across all AWS services), then $0.09/GB
- Region
- us-east-1
Azure Blob Storage
Everything from Azure Blob StorageHot (LRS)
- Storage
- $0.021 per GB a month
- Egress
- $0.087 per GB
- Free tier
- First 100 GB/month outbound data transfer free (per subscription, shared across Azure services). Storage rate is the Hot LRS, General Block Blob v2 tier for the first 50 TB/month; egress rate is the 100 GB–10 TB/month Standard Data Transfer Out tier.
- Region
- East US (eastus)
AWS S3 against the rest
Azure Blob Storage against the rest
How this page is made: every figure above is computed from the plans listed, which were checked against each provider's own pricing page (linked per plan, with the date). Nothing here is ranked by who pays us. The highlighted plan is each provider's best on price. Non-USD prices are converted at an approximate fixed rate for comparison only. See our methodology and how we make money.