Awesome comparison of the costs and benefits of Azure versus AWS

I've just stumbled upon this awesome analysis of some Azure versus AWS services.

I think there are several strategic and architectural things to consider when choosing between the two services - choosing to deploy roles on Azure is an application lifestyle choice compared to choosing OS deployment and system admin on EC2 - and both lifestyles have their problems!

There's lots of good material in here:

http://compositecode.com/2010/11/01/cloudthrowdown-part1/

http://compositecode.com/2010/11/03/cloudthrowdown-part2/

http://compositecode.com/2010/11/08/cloudthrowdown-part3-2/