Both Amazon and Microsoft have compelling stories and rich features supporting cloud-enabled solutions. When you endeavor to leverage the cloud for a new or existing solution – it can be daunting to make sense of the various offerings for compute (IaaS and PaaS), storage, data (noSQL, relational and big data), and content delivery and streaming. Furthermore, other features such as networking, load balancing, security, configuration management and tooling play an important role in the overall cloud topology. How do AWS and Azure compare in these areas? What are their relative strengths and weaknesses? In this session we’ll provide perspective on these questions on both platforms, illustrate with core architecture scenarios that drive choices, and relevant demonstrations.