Microsoft Azure vs OVHcloud

Microsoft Azure is strongest for enterprises. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Microsoft Azure	OVHcloud
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Enterprises Windows/.NET workloads Hybrid cloud Regulated industries	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	60	33
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Phone (paid plans), Docs, Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, PCI DSS	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Windows Server VMs carry a license surcharge on top of the Linux compute rate Outbound bandwidth billed above 100 GB/month pooled free tier, tiered by volume Premium SSD/Ultra Disk IOPS and throughput billed separately from disk capacity Blob Storage Cool/Cold/Archive tiers bill a minimum 128 KiB per object and impose early-deletion penalties (90/180 day minimums) Archive tier retrieval fees are notably high ($6.50/10,000 read ops) AKS Standard tier control plane fee ($0.10/hr per cluster) on top of node VM costs	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18