AWS DynamoDB vs Azure CosmosDB vs Azure Table Storage pricing comparison
Using a db size of 10Gb, and 10% writes and 90% reads. Provisioned databases are for 1 year. For AWS SimpleDB the amount of CPU is hard to quantify, so I used the following formulae (0.248+((requestsPerSecond)/1.5*0.14))*usdgbp This matches closly to Azure Table Storage, which is to be expected. Here are the results: (click on image to view) (click on image to view) Zooming into the lower end (click on image to view) Download Azure-CosmosDB-pricing.xlsx spreadsheet here . Summary: Both AWS and Azure are similar in NoSQL pricing. For the small companies out there needing the cheapest NoSQL options there is Azure Table Storage and AWS SimpleDB . These are the cheapest up until you hit 400 reads per seconds which is plenty for most companies. However, be aware of the per-item size constraints below. Table Storage is about 13ms for a read and CosmosDB is about 8ms. Many developers use Amazon SimpleDB in conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon Sim...