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Cloud comparison

Ryan Parman edited this page Nov 4, 2024 · 1 revision

Definitions

Acronym Meaning
AWS Amazon Web Services
Azure Microsoft Azure
GCP Google Cloud Platform
OCI Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Compute

AWS GCP Azure OCI
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Compute Engine Virtual Machines Compute Instances
Elastic Beanstalk App Engine App Service Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Lambda Cloud Functions Azure Functions Oracle Functions
Auto Scaling Autoscaler Virtual Machine Scale Sets Autoscaling
Fargate Cloud Run Azure Container Instances (ACI) Container Instances

Storage

AWS GCP Azure OCI
S3 (Simple Storage Service) Cloud Storage Blob Storage Object Storage
EBS (Elastic Block Store) Persistent Disks Managed Disks Block Volumes
EFS (Elastic File System) Filestore Azure Files File Storage
Glacier Nearline/Coldline Storage Archive Storage Archive Storage

Networking

AWS GCP Azure OCI
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Virtual Network (VNet) Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)
Route 53 Cloud DNS Azure DNS Oracle Cloud DNS
Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) Cloud Load Balancing Azure Load Balancer Load Balancer
Direct Connect Dedicated Interconnect ExpressRoute FastConnect

Databases

AWS GCP Azure OCI
RDS (Relational Database Service) Cloud SQL Azure SQL Database Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), MySQL Database, Oracle Database Cloud
DynamoDB Cloud Bigtable Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL Database (Oracle)
Aurora Cloud Spanner Azure Database for MySQL/PostgreSQL Autonomous Database
ElastiCache Memorystore Azure Cache for Redis Redis

Analytics

AWS GCP Azure OCI
EMR (Elastic MapReduce) Dataproc HDInsight Data Flow
Redshift BigQuery Azure Synapse Analytics Autonomous Data Warehouse
Kinesis Pub/Sub Event Hubs Streaming
Athena BigQuery Azure Data Lake Analytics Data Catalog

AI/ML

AWS GCP Azure OCI
SageMaker AI Platform Azure Machine Learning Data Science
Rekognition Vision AI Azure Cognitive Services, Computer Vision Vision AI
Polly Text-to-Speech API Azure Cognitive Services, Speech Speech AI
Lex Dialogflow Azure Bot Services Digital Assistant

Security and Identity

AWS GCP Azure OCI
IAM (Identity and Access Management) Cloud IAM Azure Active Directory (AAD) Identity and Access Management (IAM)
KMS (Key Management Service) Cloud KMS Azure Key Vault Key Management
CloudTrail Cloud Audit Logs Azure Monitor (with Activity Logs) Audit
GuardDuty Security Command Center Azure Security Center Cloud Guard

DevOps and Management

AWS GCP Azure OCI
CloudFormation Deployment Manager Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Resource Manager
CodeBuild Cloud Build Azure Pipelines Developer Cloud Service Build
CodeDeploy Google Cloud Deployment Manager Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines) Developer Cloud Service Deploy
CloudWatch Stackdriver (now part of Operations) Azure Monitor Monitoring
Systems Manager Cloud Operations Azure Automation Management Cloud

Containers and Orchestration

AWS GCP Azure OCI
Elastic Container Service (ECS) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
Fargate Cloud Run Azure Container Instances (ACI) Container Instances

Content Delivery and Networking

AWS GCP Azure OCI
CloudFront Cloud CDN Azure CDN Content Delivery Network
API Gateway API Gateway Azure API Management API Gateway
Elastic IP Global IP Public IP Address Public IP