Difference between OneDrive and Azure Storage?

Difference between Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Azure Storage:

Which One Is Better?

OneDrive is lightweight online storage with a free tier of services suitable for home use. Azure Storage is a much more durable solution with a hierarchy of service tiers. However, this comes at a price.

In order to compare MS Azure to OneDrive, we will explore several important parameters:

	OneDrive	Azure Storage
First start	Pre-installed in the latest Windows versions. Users can activate OneDrive accounts via their existing Microsoft registration	Available after a separate registration in Azure system
Benefits for SMBs	Targeted at individual customers mostly, but offers a special OneDrive for Business subscription plan making it possible to increase the storage limit up to 5TB for one user	Offers 500TB for single storage with a broader set of management options (lifecycle management, secure import/export via Azure data center)
Integration with MS Office	Available as an option for saving MS Office files, so they could go directly to the cloud	Does not provide special services for MS Office apps
Durability	Offers file versioning for MS Office documents and quality-of-services guarantees only in Business version	Redundancy options for data backups, file versioning and lifecycle management
SLA	Only for Business version: 99.9% uptime, 24/7 phone support and protection of user data from unauthorized access	Data read & write requests will be served successfully for 99.99% of the time, about 98% of monthly uptime
Price	Offers subscription plans with fixed monthly pay, starting at $1.99 per month for up to 50GB of storage available	Charges users for each GB of data stored, starting with $0.01 per month. An additional fee is applied when uploading and modifying files
Backups	Does not offer any special backup service or storage	Has a special Cloud Backup service. It stores backup data in special storage for infrequent access with extended protection and security
Native offline work	Yes (synchronization)	No

So for home use, especially for beginners, it is better to try out OneDrive with its free 5GB storage option. But small and medium businesses dealing with several times bigger data volumes need more storage space and data safety options. Azure redundancy and advanced backup management would be the best choice for them.