While Microsoft Azure’s Product Availability by Region portal lists services by geography, it lacks forward-looking timelines and the unified API comparability that AWS’s Capabilities by Region delivers, Jain noted.
Region Picker, which is a similar offering from Google, too, falls short on granular, future-facing service or API roadmaps and focuses on passing information that would help enterprises optimize for price, carbon footprint, and latency.
According to Jain, Capabilities by Region can help enterprises avoid overspending in the cloud, which is a widespread and growing concern.
Industry estimates show that nearly 30% of most cloud budgets are wasted due to underutilized resources or poor visibility into resources, Jain added.
Unlike AWS CloudFormation and the AWS Cost Explorer, which are other tools related to planning and management of cloud deployments and are accessible via the AWS Management Console, AWS’s Capabilities by Region tool can be accessed via its Builder Center — an AWS products and services-related community portal targeted at cloud architects and developers.
Analysts say the new tool has been deliberately placed outside the AWS Management Console to avoid disruptions to live deployments.
