ColdFusion on AWS vs Azure: A Real Cost-Benefit Analysis for Enterprise Workloads
Both AWS and Azure run ColdFusion 2025 well — there is no technical blocker on either cloud. The real decision is commercial and architectural. AWS gives you the broadest ecosystem, the most mature container and serverle
Both AWS and Azure run ColdFusion 2025 well — there is no technical blocker on either cloud. The real decision is commercial and architectural. AWS gives you the broadest ecosystem, the most mature container and serverless tooling, and a large free egress tier (100 GB/month). Azure gives you Azure Hybrid Benefit — a licensing discount that can cut Windows Server VM costs by an average of 36% and up to 80% when stacked with Reserved VM Instances — which is a significant structural cost advantage for the majority of ColdFusion enterprises already running Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance. ColdFusion’s own licensing cost is now fixed at $760/year (Standard) or $2,930/year (Enterprise) per server, subscription-only since February 2025, and is cloud-agnostic — it doesn’t change based on which cloud you choose.
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