| Compute (VMs) |
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) |
Compute Engine |
Virtual Machines |
Basic virtual server instances. |
| Compute (Containers) |
ECS (Elastic Container Service), EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) |
GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Run |
AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Container Instances, App Service |
Managed container orchestration (Kubernetes) or simpler container instances. |
| Compute (Container Registry) |
ECR (Elastic Container Registry) |
Artifact Registry (or older Container Registry) |
ACR (Azure Container Registry) |
Storing Docker/OCI container images. |
| Compute (Serverless Functions) |
Lambda |
Cloud Functions |
Azure Functions |
Event-driven, pay-per-execution compute. |
| Storage (Object) |
S3 (Simple Storage Service) |
Cloud Storage |
Blob Storage |
Scalable storage for unstructured data (files, backups, media). |
| Storage (Block) |
EBS (Elastic Block Store) |
Persistent Disk |
Managed Disks |
Network-attached storage volumes for VMs (like virtual hard drives). |
| Storage (File) |
EFS (Elastic File System), FSx |
Filestore |
Azure Files |
Managed network file shares (NFS/SMB). |
| Storage (Archive) |
S3 Glacier (various tiers) |
Cloud Storage (Archive class) |
Azure Archive Storage (Blob tier) |
Low-cost, long-term data archiving. |
| Databases (Relational) |
RDS (Relational Database Service), Aurora |
Cloud SQL |
Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL/PostgreSQL/MariaDB |
Managed relational database services (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.). |
| Databases (NoSQL - Key/Value & Document) |
DynamoDB |
Firestore, Bigtable |
Cosmos DB |
Managed NoSQL databases (various models). |
| Databases (Data Warehouse) |
Redshift |
BigQuery |
Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL Data Warehouse) |
Managed data warehousing for large-scale analytics. |
| Networking (VPC) |
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) |
VPC Network |
Virtual Network (VNet) |
Isolated private network environments in the cloud. |
| Networking (Load Balancing) |
ELB (Elastic Load Balancing - ALB, NLB, GWLB) |
Cloud Load Balancing |
Load Balancer, Application Gateway |
Distributing network traffic across multiple instances/services. |
| Networking (DNS) |
Route 53 |
Cloud DNS |
Azure DNS |
Managed Domain Name System services. |
| Networking (CDN) |
CloudFront |
Cloud CDN |
Azure CDN |
Content Delivery Network for caching content globally. |
| AI / ML (Platform) |
SageMaker |
Vertex AI |
Azure Machine Learning |
End-to-end platform for building, training, and deploying ML models. |
| AI / ML (Pre-built APIs) |
Rekognition (Vision), Polly (Text-to-Speech), Lex (Chatbots), Translate |
Cloud Vision AI, Cloud Text-to-Speech, Dialogflow (Chatbots), Cloud Translation |
Azure AI Vision, Azure AI Speech, Azure Bot Service, Azure AI Translator |
Pre-trained models accessible via APIs for common tasks. |
| Developer Tools (CI/CD) |
CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy |
Cloud Build |
Azure Pipelines (Part of Azure DevOps) |
Continuous integration and continuous deployment services. |
| Developer Tools (Code Repo) |
CodeCommit |
Cloud Source Repositories |
Azure Repos (Part of Azure DevOps) |
Managed private Git repositories. |
| Developer Tools (Monitoring) |
CloudWatch |
Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) |
Azure Monitor |
Collecting metrics, logs, and traces; setting alarms. |
| Developer Tools (Logging) |
CloudWatch Logs |
Cloud Logging (formerly Stackdriver) |
Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) |
Log aggregation, storage, and analysis. |
| Security (Identity) |
IAM (Identity and Access Management) |
Cloud IAM |
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) / Microsoft Entra ID |
Managing users, groups, roles, and permissions. (Note Azure AD rename) |
| Security (Key Management) |
KMS (Key Management Service) |
Cloud KMS |
Key Vault |
Managing cryptographic keys. |
| Security (Firewall) |
Security Groups, Network ACLs, WAF |
VPC Firewall Rules, Cloud Armor |
Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure Firewall, Azure WAF |
Network traffic filtering at instance and subnet/network levels; Web App Firewall. |
| Big Data / Analytics (Processing) |
EMR (Elastic MapReduce) |
Dataproc |
HDInsight, Azure Databricks, Synapse Analytics Spark pools |
Managed Hadoop, Spark, and other big data frameworks. |
| Big Data / Analytics (Streaming) |
Kinesis |
Pub/Sub, Dataflow |
Event Hubs, Stream Analytics |
Real-time data stream ingestion and processing. |
| Management (Infra as Code) |
CloudFormation |
Cloud Deployment Manager |
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates, Bicep |
Defining and provisioning infrastructure using code. |
| Management (CLI) |
AWS CLI |
gcloud CLI |
Azure CLI |
Command-line interfaces for managing resources. |
