Meanwhile Azure “Standard HDD” disks provide 1,500 IOPS and 150 MB/s for a 1 TB volume, as long a you tick the free “Performance Plus” checkbox during creation.

I hate to be a grammar pest but it's worse, not worser.

Least as far as I'm aware though AWS has never really been king of performance per $ when it comes to storage or VPS usage. Personally I thought that was a pretty beaten bush for most.