Storage and bandwidth pricing are very similar. In general, running a VM on Azure will cost you about the same as EC2, which is probably just what Microsoft planned. EC2 offers features Microsoft has ...

Microsoft to take the wraps off 'Antares' hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor May 29, 2012 at 6:04 a.m. PT ...

Microsoft is preparing an expansion of the Windows Azure virtual machine hosting technology that will let customers run either Windows or Linux virtual machines, as well as applications like SQL ...