If you already know which features you need, select them in the Cloud Provider Finder to immediately find matching providers.
The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.
| IONOS | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| France Germany Spain United Kingdom United States | Australia Brazil Canada China France Germany India Norway Singapore Singapore South Africa South Korea Switzerland United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States |
Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.
| IONOS | Microsoft Azure | |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Mixed | Yes |
| DDOS Protection | Yes | No |
| Backups | No | No |
| Control Panel | Custom | Custom |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 7 | 40 |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 2 | 5 |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes | Yes |
| Admin REST API | Yes | Yes |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | No |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | No |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | Yes |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal | Credit cards |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | No |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | No |
| IPv6 support | Yes | Yes |
| Firewall | Yes | Yes |
| Shelving | No | Yes |
Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.
| IONOS | Microsoft Azure | |
|---|---|---|
| Backups - Instance backups or snapshots | ||
| Block storage - Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice | ||
| Object storage - Data storage for objects, individual files with API access | ||
| Load balancer - Distribute traffic across set of instances | ||
| Floating IP addresses - Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice | ||
| Team Management - Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account | ||
| Managed databases - Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ... | ||
| Serverless - Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs | ||
| DDoS protection - Distributed Denial of Service protection | ||
| Kubernetes - Management of Docker containers | ||
| GPU instances - GPU instances to run your AI workload | ||
| Private network - Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider |
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Compare the performance of the 2 selected providers.