Microsoft Azure → Amazon Web Services
AWS equivalent of Azure Batch
The closest AWS equivalent of Azure Batch is AWS Batch.
About Azure Batch
| Provider | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Free job scheduling and pool management for large parallel and HPC jobs on VM pools (including Spot), with tasks, job schedules, and autoscale formulas. You pay for the underlying resources. |
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
AWS mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Managed batch computing | AWS Batch | Direct match |
Batch & HPC(1)
Managed batch computing Direct match
AWS Batch maps to Azure Batch. Both are free schedulers that run jobs on pools of VMs (including Spot) that you pay for.
- Workload format. AWS Batch jobs are container-based (job definitions) on EC2, Fargate, or EKS compute environments. Azure Batch runs tasks as command lines, with optional containers, on VM pools you define (image, size, start task, application packages).
- Scheduling. AWS Batch has job queues with priorities, fair-share scheduling, array jobs, dependencies, and multi-node parallel jobs. Azure Batch has jobs, tasks, task dependencies, job schedules, multi-instance (MPI) tasks, and pool autoscale formulas.
- Azure Batch accounts use either Batch service or user subscription pool allocation mode. The second puts pool VMs in your subscription, so your quotas and reservations apply.