AWS Vs Azure Vs GCP Cloud Services
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In the last blog post, we have discussed the difference between aws,azure, and gcp account organization.
https://cloudaffaire.com/aws-vs-azure-vs-gcp-account-organization/
In this blog post, we will discuss AWS vs Azure vs GCP cloud services.
AWS Vs Azure Vs GCP Cloud Services
Knowing one public cloud service provider is not enough anymore and the trend for multi-cloud professionals is growing where you need to be an expert in one cloud service provider and also know the basics of others. In line with this trend, I am collating cloud services provided by the three major public cloud providers AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Note: Each cloud service provider has its own sets of rules for defining a cloud service and a service feature. A full-fledged service in one cloud provider may be a feature of a service in another cloud provider. I have tried to compare the services to the best of my knowledge and ability. Hence, I would encourage a peer review from my cloud community. If you think any comparison is factually not correct or any service/feature that may be included in this list. Feel free to comment with a reference and I will update this blog accordingly.
AWS Vs Azure Vs GCP Cloud Services
| AWS | Azure | GCP |
| Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Azure Virtual Machines | Compute Engine |
| Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling | Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Compute Engine Autoscaler |
| AWS Batch | Azure Batch | Batch on GKE (beta) |
| AWS Elastic Beanstalk | App Service, Cloud Services | App Engine |
| AWS Lambda | Azure Functions | Cloud Functions |
| AWS Outposts | Azure Stack | NA |
| AWS Snow Family | Azure Data Box | Transfer Appliance |
| VMware Cloud on AWS | Azure VMware Solution | Google Cloud VMware Engine |
| Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host | Azure Dedicated Host | Sole-tenant nodes |
| Amazon WorkSpaces | Windows Virtual Desktop | NA |
| AWS EC2 Spot Instances | Azure Spot Virtual Machines | Preemptible VMs |
| Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Container Registry | Container Registry, Artifact Registry |
| Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) | Container Instances | Cloud Run |
| Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
| AWS App Mesh | Service Fabric | Anthos Service Mesh |
| Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Virtual Network (VNet) | Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) |
| Amazon API Gateway | API Management | Apigee |
| Amazon CloudFront | Content Delivery Network | Cloud CDN |
| Amazon Route 53 | Azure DNS | Cloud DNS |
| AWS PrivateLink | Azure Private Link | VPC Service Controls |
| AWS Direct Connect | Azure ExpressRoute | Cloud Interconnect |
| AWS Global Accelerator | Azure Front Door | Cloud Load Balancing |
| AWS Transit Gateway | Virtual WAN | NA |
| Elastic Load Balancing | Load Balancer | Cloud Load Balancing |
| AWS VPC Peering | Virtual Network Peering | VPC Network Peering |
| AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN) | Azure Virtual Private Network (VPN) | Cloud VPN |
| AWS Shield Basic/Advanced | Azure DDoS Protection | Cloud Armor |
| AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) | Web Application Firewall | Cloud Armor |
| VPC Flow Logs | Network Watcher | VPC Flow Logs |
| AWS Application Load Balancer | Application Gateway | HTTP(S) Load Balancer |
| Network Load Balancer (NLB) | Load Balancer | TCP/UDP Load Balancer |
| NAT Gateway | Virtual Network NAT | Cloud NAT |
| Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) | Blob Storage | Cloud Storage |
| Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Disk Storage | Persistent Disk |
| Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) | Azure Files | Filestore |
| Amazon S3 Glacier | Archive Storage | Cloud Storage Archive |
| AWS Backup | Azure Backup | NA |
| Amazon Aurora | Azure SQL Database | Cloud Spanner |
| Amazon DynamoDB | Azure Cosmos DB | Cloud Bigtable |
| Amazon ElastiCache | Azure Cache for Redis | Memorystore |
| Amazon RDS | Azure Database for MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL | Cloud SQL |
| Amazon Redshift | Synapse Analytics | BigQuery |
| AWS Database Migration Service | Azure Database Migration Service | Database Migration Service |
| AWS Glue | Data Factory, Data Catalog | Cloud Data Fusion |
| AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) | Azure Active Directory (AD) | Identity & Access Management (IAM) |
| Amazon Cognito | Azure Active Directory (AD) | Firebase Authentication |
| AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) | NA | NA |
| AWS CloudHSM | Azure Dedicated HSM | Cloud HSM |
| AWS Key Management Service (KMS) | Key Vault | Cloud Key Management Service |
| AWS Secrets Manager | Key Vault | Secret Manager |
| AWS Single Sign-On | Azure Active Directory (AD) | Cloud Identity |
| Amazon CloudWatch | Azure Monitor | Cloud Monitoring |
| AWS CloudFormation | Azure Deployment Manager | Cloud Deployment Manager |
| AWS CloudTrail | Log Analytics | Cloud Audit Logs |
| AWS Command Line Interface | Azure Command Line Interface | gcloud |
| AWS Config | Azure Policy | Cloud Asset Inventory |
| AWS Management Console | Azure Portal | Cloud Console |
| AWS Organizations | Management Groups, Subscription Management, Policy | Organization |
| AWS Personal Health Dashboard | Azure Service Health | NA |
| AWS Systems Manager | Automation | OS patch management |
| AWS Trusted Advisor | Advisor | NA |
| AWS Cost Management Services | Cost Management + Billing | Cost Management |
| AWS CloudShell | Azure Cloud Shell | Cloud Shell |
| AWS X-Ray | Azure Monitor | Cloud Trace, Cloud Debugger |
| Amazon Kinesis | Azure Stream Analytics, Events Hub | Dataflow, Pub/Sub |
| Amazon QuickSight | Power BI | Looker |
| Amazon Data Pipeline, AWS Glue, Managed Workflows for Apache Air | Data Factory | Cloud Composer |
| Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) | Service Bus, Queue Storage | Pub/Sub |
| Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) | Azure Notification Hub | Pub/Sub |
| AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) | Azure SDK | Cloud SDK |
| AWS CodeArtifact | Azure DevOps – Azure Artifacts | Artifact Registry |
| AWS CodeBuild | Azure DevOps – Azure Test Plans | Cloud Build |
| AWS CodeCommit | Azure DevOps – Azure Repos | Cloud Source Repositories |
| AWS CodeDeploy | Azure DevOps – Azure Pipelines | Cloud Build |
| AWS CodePipeline | Azure DevOps – Azure Pipelines | Cloud Build |
| AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store | App Configuration | NA |
| AWS CloudWatch Events | Azure Scheduler, Azure Logic Apps – WebJobs | Cloud Scheduler |
| AWS Database Migration Service | Azure Database Migration Service | Database Migration Service |
| AWS Server Migration Service | Azure Migrate | Migrate for Compute Engine |
| AWS Step Functions | Logic App | NA |
| Amazon EventBridge | Event Grid | Pub/Sub |
| AWS Amplify | Xamarin | Firebase |
| Amazon Location Service (Preview) | Azure Maps | Google Maps Platform |
| Amazon SageMaker | Machine Learning | AI Platform (Unified), AutoML |
| Amazon Comprehend | Text Analytics | Cloud Natural Language API |
| Amazon Lex | Bot Framework | Dialogflow |
| Amazon Personalize | Personaliser | Recommendations AI |
| Amazon Polly | Text to Speech | Text-to-Speech |
| Amazon Rekognition | Azure Cognitive Services | AI Platform (Unified) |
| Amazon Textract | Computer Vision | Cloud Vision, Vision AI |
| Amazon Translate | Translator | Cloud Translation |
| Amazon Transcribe | Speech to Text | Speech-to-Text |
| AWS IoT Core | Azure IoT Hub | IoT Core |
| Amazon Chime | Microsoft 365 | G Suite |
| Amazon Honeycode (Beta) | Azure PowerApps | Google App Maker |
| AWS ParallelCluster | Azure CycleCloud | NA |
| Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS | Azure Red Hat OpenShift | NA |
| AWS Network Firewall | Azure Firewall | NA |
| Virtual private gateway | VPN Gateway | Cloud VPN gateways |
| Amazon FSx for Lustre | Avere vFXT for Azure | NA |
| AWS Storage Gateway | StorSimple | NA |
| AWS Lake Formation | Azure Data Share | NA |
| Amazon GuardDuty | Security Center | Security Command Center |
| Amazon Inspector | Security Center | Security Command Center |
| Amazon Macie | Azure Information Protection | Cloud Data Loss Prevention |
| AWS Artifact | Service Trust Portal | NA |
| AWS Directory Service | NA | Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (beta) |
| AWS Resource Access Manager | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Sentinel | NA |
| NA | NA | Identity Platform |
| AWS Chatbot | Azure Bot Service | Dialogflow |
| AWS License Manager | NA | NA |
| AWS Service Catalog | Azure Blueprint (preview) | Private Catalog |
| Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) | Microsoft 365 | G Suite |
| NA | Azure Site Recovery | NA |
| Amazon CodeGuru | Azure Monitor | Cloud Profiler |
| Amazon Athena | Data Lake Analytics | BigQuery |
| Amazon Elasticsearch Service | NA | NA |
| Amazon EMR | Azure Data Explorer, Databricks, HDInsight, Data Lake Storage | Dataproc |
| AWS Data Pipeline | Data Factory | Cloud Data Fusion |
| AWS Lake Formation | Azure Data Share | NA |
| AWS Device Farm | App Center | Firebase Test Lab |
| NA | Azure DevTest Labs | NA |
| NA | GitHub Actions for Azure | NA |
| NA | Azure Boards | NA |
| NA | NA | Cloud Tasks |
| AWS Migration Hub | Azure Migrate | NA |
| AWS Application Discovery Service | Azure Migrate | NA |
| AWS DataSync | File Sync | NA |
| Amazon Healthlake | Azure API for FHIR | NA |
| NA | NA | Knative |
| AWS DeepLens | Kinect DK | NA |
| AWS Panorama (Preview) | Vision AI DevKit | NA |
| TensorFlow on AWS | NA | TensorFlow Enterprise |
| Amazon Elastic Inference | NA | Cloud Inference API (alpha) |
| AWS Greengrass | Azure IoT Edge | NA |
| AWS IoT Device Defender | Azure Defender for IoT | NA |
| AWS IoT Things Graph | Azure Digital Twins | NA |
| FreeRTOS | Azure RTOS | NA |
| Amazon Managed Blockchain | Azure Blockchain Service (Preview) | NA |
| Amazon WorkDocs | Microsoft 365 | G Suite |
| Amazon WorkSpaces | Windows Virtual Desktop | NA |
| Alexa for Business | NA | Google Assistant |
| Amazon WorkMail | Microsoft 365 | G Suite |
| AWS Ground Station | Azure Orbital (Preview) | NA |
| Amazon Lightsail | NA | NA |
| AWS Serverless Application Repository | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Spring Cloud | NA |
| NA | Static Web Apps (Preview) | NA |
| AWS App2Container | NA | NA |
| AWS Copilot | NA | NA |
| AWS Cloud Map | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Bastion | NA |
| NA | Azure Route Server (Preview) | NA |
| NA | NA | Cloud Router |
| NA | NA | Network Intelligence Center |
| NA | NA | Network Telemetry |
| NA | NA | Traffic Director |
| CloudEndure Disaster Recovery | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure FXT Edge Filer | NA |
| NA | Azure HPC Cache | NA |
| NA | Azure NetApp Files | NA |
| NA | NA | Cloud Storage for Firebase |
| Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 (Preview) | NA | NA |
| Amazon DocumentDB | NA | NA |
| Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) | NA | NA |
| Amazon Neptune | NA | NA |
| Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) | NA | NA |
| Amazon Timestream | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra | NA |
| NA | Azure SQL | NA |
| NA | Azure SQL Database | NA |
| NA | Azure SQL Edge | NA |
| NA | Azure SQL Managed Instance | NA |
| NA | Table Storage | NA |
| NA | NA | Firestore |
| NA | NA | Firebase Realtime Database |
| Amazon Detective | NA | NA |
| AWS Audit Manager | NA | NA |
| AWS Firewall Manager | NA | NA |
| AWS Security Hub | Security Center | Security Command Center |
| NA | Azure Defender | NA |
| NA | Azure Defender for IoT | NA |
| NA | NA | Resource Manager |
| NA | NA | Cloud Asset Inventory |
| NA | NA | Web Risk |
| NA | NA | Security key enforcement |
| NA | NA | Titan Security Keys |
| NA | NA | Phishing Protection |
| NA | NA | BeyondCorp Enterprise |
| NA | NA | reCAPTCHA Enterprise |
| AWS Control Tower | NA | NA |
| AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (Preview) | NA | NA |
| Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | NA | NA |
| Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus | NA | NA |
| AWS OpsWorks | NA | NA |
| AWS Proton (Preview) | NA | NA |
| Amazon Connect | NA | NA |
| Amazon Pinpoint | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Lighthouse | NA |
| NA | Traffic Manager | NA |
| NA | Azure Purview | NA |
| Amazon CloudSearch | Cognitive Search | NA |
| AWS Data Exchange | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Databricks | NA |
| NA | Azure Purview | NA |
| Amazon Corretto | NA | NA |
| AWS Cloud9 | NA | NA |
| AWS CodeStar | NA | NA |
| AWS Fault Injection Simulator | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure Data Studio | NA |
| NA | Azure Lab Services | NA |
| NA | NA | Tekton |
| NA | NA | Workflows |
| NA | NA | Eventarc |
| AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration) | NA | NA |
| AWS Transfer Family | NA | NA |
| NA | NA | BigQuery Data Transfer Service |
| NA | NA | Migrate for Anthos |
| AWS AppSync | NA | NA |
| Amazon AppFlow | NA | NA |
| Amazon MQ | NA | NA |
| NA | NA | Eventarc |
| NA | NA | Workflows |
| Amazon Pinpoint | NA | NA |
| NA | Spatial Anchors | NA |
| Amazon DevOps Guru | NA | NA |
| Amazon Forecast | NA | NA |
| Amazon Fraud Detector | NA | NA |
| Amazon Kendra | NA | NA |
| Amazon Lookout for Equipment | NA | NA |
| Amazon Lookout for Metrics | NA | NA |
| Amazon Lookout for Vision | NA | NA |
| Amazon Monitron | NA | NA |
| AWS DeepComposer | NA | NA |
| AWS DeepRacer | NA | NA |
| NA | Anomaly Detector | NA |
| NA | Bing Suite | NA |
| NA | Form Recognizer | NA |
| NA | Microsoft Genomics | NA |
| NA | Project Bonsai (Preview) | NA |
| NA | NA | AI Hub (beta) |
| AWS IoT 1-Click | NA | NA |
| AWS IoT Analytics | NA | NA |
| AWS IoT Button | NA | NA |
| AWS IoT Device Management | NA | NA |
| AWS IoT Events | NA | NA |
| AWS IoT SiteWise | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure IoT Central | NA |
| NA | Azure Percept | NA |
| NA | Azure Sphere | NA |
| NA | Azure Time Series Insights | NA |
| Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) | NA | NA |
| Amazon AppStream 2.0 | NA | NA |
| Amazon WorkLink | NA | NA |
| AWS RoboMaker | NA | NA |
| NA | Azure SignalR Service | NA |
| NA | Azure Arc (Preview) | NA |
Reference Links:
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/aws-azure-gcp-service-comparison
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/gcp-professional/services