Microsoft Azure cloud grows four-fold in a year

Microsoft says its Azure cloud has more than 4 trillion objects stored in it, a fourfold increase from a year ago. Its Azure cloud averages 270,000 requests per second, while peaking at 880,000 requests per second during some months. The requests per second have increased almost threefold in the past year.

As a comparison, Amazon Web Services said earlier this year that just its Simple Storage Service (S3) holds 905 billion objects, and was growing at a rate of 1 billion objects per day, while handling an average of 650,000 requests per second.