Microsoft Azure vs Elastic
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Microsoft Azure | Elastic | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Cloud Computing Services | Microsoft Azure azure.microsoft.com | Elastic is a technology company. elastic.co |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu azure.microsoft.com | Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Alibaba, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud elastic.co |
| Deployment | Not observed | Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Serverless, self-managed, on-premises, Self-managed Elasticsearch, Hosted, Serverless elastic.co |
| Integrations | Not observed | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, BigQuery, GKE, applications, cloud-native infrastructure, content repositories, security activity and context elastic.co |
| Compliance | Not observed | HIPAA, SOC 2 elastic.co |
| Free plan | Yes azure.microsoft.com | Not observed |
| Plans | Azure reservations, Azure savings plan for compute, Azure azure.microsoft.com | Limited, Base, Enhanced, Premium, Enterprise, Platinum elastic.co |
| Open source | Not observed | Yes elastic.co |
| Pricing basis | pay only for the cloud resources you use and scale as you grow. azure.microsoft.com | Resource based pricing elastic.co |
Where they differ
- Microsoft Azure’s pages state a free plan; AirStack has not found that on Elastic’s pages.
- Elastic’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on Microsoft Azure’s pages.
- Elastic claims HIPAA on its own pages; Microsoft Azure’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Elastic claims SOC 2 on its own pages; Microsoft Azure’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.