That genuinely doesn't surprise me at all. I've used both extensively and Azure definitely has the edge with respect to performance (and management which is pre

That genuinely doesn't surprise me at all. I've used both extensively and Azure definitely has the edge with respect to performance (and management which is pretty neat). Also I've had severe reliability problems with S3 over the last couple of years. Azure support is actually better as well. I've found it very easy to get through to a human unlike when we had a major EC2 problem. However, I'd pick neither of them if I had to choose and would go with a smaller, old fashioned dedicated hosting company as you are rarely lost in the noise then if something goes bang. Prime example being Azure's reporting services which was dead for nearly an entire week.