Multicloud Journey- Service comparison of AWS, Azure, GCP

Service Name	AWS Service	Azure Service	GCP Service	Description
Marketplace	AWS Marketplace	Azure Marketplace	GCP Marketplace	Easy-to-deploy and automatically configured third-party applications, including single virtual machine or multiple virtual machine solutions
Compute (Virtual Servers)	EC2 instances	Virtual Machines	Compute Engine	Virtual servers allow users ti provision, manage, maintain OS & server software based on Pay-as-you-go/
Compute (Virtual Servers)	AWS Batch	Azure Batch	GCP Batch	Execute large scale parallel & high performance computing applications.
Compute (Virtual Servers)	AWS Auto-scaling	Azure VM Scale Sets	GCP Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups	Allows you to automatically scale the number of VM instances, based on defined metrices/thresholds scale out or scale in.
Compute (Virtual Servers)	VMWare on AWS	Azure VMWare by CloudSimple	VMware as a service	Redeploy & extend the VMware-based enterprise workloads to Azure by CloudSimple.
Compute (Virtual Servers)	Parallel Cluster	CycleCloud		Create, manage , optimize HPC & big compute clusters at scale.
Containers & Container Orchestrators	Elastic Container Service(ECS) AWS Fargate	Azure Container Instances(ACI)	Cloud Run	ACI is the flastest & Simplest way to run containers in Azure.
Containers & Container Orchestrators	Elastic Container Registry(ECR)	Azure Container Registry (ACR)	Container Registry Artifact Registry	Allows customers to store Docker formatted images. Used to create all types of container deployments on Azure.
Containers & Container Orchestrators	Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)	Deploy orchestrated containerized apps with CNCF Kubernetes at scale.
Containers & Container Orchestrators	AWS App Mesh	Azure Service Fabric Mesh	Anthos Service Mesh	Fully managed service that enables developers to deploy microservices applications without managing virtual machines, storage, or networking.
Containers & Container Orchestrators	EKS & Kubernetes Container Insights Metrices	Azure Monitor for containers	Kubernetes Engine Monitoring	Azure Monitor for containers is designed to monitor the performance of container workloads deployed to AKS, AKS Engine, ACI, Azure Stack.
Serverless (Functions)	AWS Lambda	Azure Functions	Cloud Functions	Provides FaaS (Function as a service) integrating systems & run backend processes in response to events without provisioning compute servers.
Database (Relational DB)	RDS	Azure SQL DB Azure Database for MySQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL	Cloud SQL (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL)	Managed relational database where scale, security, resiliency are handled by the platform
NoSQL/Document	DynamoDB SimpleDB Amazon DocumentDB	Azure Cosmos DB	Cloud Spanner	Managed relational db service with dynamic schema, security, scale, maintenance are handled by the cloud platform
NoSQL (PaaS)		Azure Cosmos DB	Cloud BigTable Cloud Firestore Firebase Realtime Database	Globally distributed multi-model db which natively supports multiple data-models, key-value, documents, graphs etc.
Caching	AWS ElastiCache	Azure Cache for Redis	Cloud Memorystore Redis Enterprise Cloud	An in-memory based, distributed caching service provides a high performance store typically store used to offload non-transactional work from a database.
Database migration	AWS DMS	Azure DMS	Open Source database Migration Tool/SQL Server Database Migration Tool	end to end migration of database migration schema & data from on-premise to cloud platform.
Networking Cloud Virtual Networking	AWS VPC	Azure Virtual Network (VNET)	GCP Virtual Private Network (VPC)	Provides an isolated, private environment in the cloud. Users have control over their virtual networking environment, including selection of their own IP address range, adding/updating address ranges, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
DNS Management	AWS Route 53	Azure DNS Azure Traffic Manager	Cloud DNS	Managing DNS records using the same credentials & billing and support contracts.
Dedicated Network (Hybrid Connectivity)	AWS Direct Connect	Azure ExpressRoute	Cloud Interconnect	Establishes a private network connection from a location to the cloud provider (not over the Internet).
Load Balancing	Network Load Balancer	Azure Load Balancer	Network Load Balancing	Azure Load Balancer load-balances traffic at layer 4 (TCP or UDP).
Load Balancing in Application layer	Application Load Balancer	Application Gateway Azure Front door Azure Traffic Manager	Global Load Balancing	Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancer. IT takes backends with any IP that is reachable. It supports SSL termination, cookie-based session affinity, and round robin for load-balancing traffic.
Cross-premises connectivity	AWS VPN Gateway	Azure VPN Gateway Azure Virtual WAN	Cloud VPN Gateway	Connects Azure virtual networks to other Azure virtual networks, or customer on-premises networks (site-to-site). Allows end users to connect to Azure services through VPN tunneling (point-to-site).
Hybrid Connectivity	AWS Virtual Private Gateway	Azure VNET Gateway	Cloud Router	Enables dynamic routes exchange
CDN	AWS CloudFront	Azure CDN	Cloud CDN	A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users.
Firewall	AWS WAF	Azure WAF	Cloud Armor	Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.
NAT Gateway	AWS NAT Gateway	Azure Virtual Network NAT	Cloud NAT	Virtual Network NAT (network address translation) provides outbound NAT translations for internet connectivity for virtual networks.
Private Connectivity to PaaS	AWS Private Link	Azure Private Link	VPC Service controls	Provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS/Azure/GCP services, on-prem apps, securely on the network
Telemetry	VPC Flow Logs	NSG Flow Logs	VPC Flow Logs	Network security group (NSG) flow logs are a feature of Network Watcher that allows you to view information about ingress and egress IP traffic through an NSG.
Telemetry Network logs	VPC Flow Logs	NSG Flow Logs	Firewall Rules Logging	NSG logs are feature of Network Watcher that allows you to view info about traffic ingress & egress.
Telemetry (Monitoring)	AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray	Azure Monitor	Operations	Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Network Watcher	AWS CloudWatch	Azure Network Watcher	Network Intelligence Center	Azure Network Watcher provides tools to monitor, diagnose, view metrics, and enable or disable logs for resources in an Azure virtual network.
Security & IAM	AWS IAM	Azure AD	Cloud IAM	Allows users to securely control access to services and resources while offering data security and protection. Create and manage users and groups and use permissions to allow and deny access to resources.
IAM (Authentication & Authorization)	AWS IAM	Azure RBAC	Cloud IAM	Role-based access control (RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to
Multi-factor Authentication	AWS MFA	Azure AD MFA	GCP MFA	Safeguard access to data and applications while meeting user demand for a simple sign-in process.
Auth & Authoriation & Management	AWS Organizations	Azure Management Groups + RBAC	Resource Manager	Structure to organize and manage assets in Azure.
AD Domain Services	AWS Directory Service	Azure AD Domain Services	Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD)	Provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, and Kerberos/NTLM authentication that are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory.
Identity managed service	AWS Cognito	Azure AD B2C	Firebase Authentication	A highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities.
Management Group	AWS Organizations	Azure Policy Azure Management Groups	Service Account
Encryption	Server side Encryption AWS S3 KMS	Azure Storage Service Encryption	Encryption by default at rest	Azure Storage Service Encryption helps you protect and safeguard your data and meet your organizational security and compliance commitments.
Hardware Security Module (HSM)	CloudHSM, KMS	Azure Key Vault	Cloud KMS	Provides security solution and works with other services by providing a way to manage, create, and control encryption keys stored in hardware security modules (HSM).
Security	AWS Inspector	Azure Security Center	Security Command Center	Automated Security assessment service provides security & compliance of applications.
Web Security with Certificates	AWS Certificate Manager	Azure App Service certificates	Web Security Scanner
Advanced Threat Management	AWS GuardDuty	Azure Advanced Threat Protection	Event Threat Protection	Detect and investigate advanced attacks on-premises and in the cloud.
Auditing	AWS Artifact	Service Trust Portal		Provides access to audit reports, compliance guides, and trust documents from across cloud services.
DDoS Protection	AWS Shield	Azure DDos Protection Service	DDoS Security with GCP Armor	Provides cloud services with protection from distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks.
Storage (Object)	AWS S3	Azure Blob Storage	Cloud Storage	Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics.
Storage (VHD)	AWS EBS	Azure Managed Disks	Persistant Disk Local SSD	SSD storage optimized for I/O intensive read/write operations. For use as high-performance Azure virtual machine storage.
Storage (File)	AWS EFS	Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files	GCP Filestore	File based storage and hosted NetApp Appliance Storage.
Data Archive	S3 Infrequent Access (IA)	Storage cool tier	Nearline
Deep Data Archive	S3 Glacier, Deep Archive	Storage archive access tier	Coldline	Archive storage has the lowest storage cost and higher data retrieval costs compared to hot and cool storage.
Data Backup	AWS Backup	Azure Backup	GCP Backup	Back up and recover files and folders from the cloud, and provide offsite protection against data loss.
Big Data & Analytics	Redshift	Azure Synapse Analytics (Formerly SQL DW)	GCP BigQuery	Cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.
Data warehouse & Lake	Lake Formation	Azure Data Share	Looker	Big data sharing service
Big Data Transformations	EMR	Azure Databricks	Cloud DataFlow	Managed Apache Spark-based analytics platform.
Big Data Transformations	EMR	HDInsight	GCP Dataproc	Managed Hadoop service.
Big Data Transformations	EMR	Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2	BigQuery	Massively scalable, secure data lake functionality built on Azure Blob Storage.
ETL/Data Orchestration	Data Pipeline, Glue	Azure Data Factory	Google Data Fusion	Processes and moves data between different compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources at specified intervals. Create, schedule, orchestrate, and manage data pipelines.
Enterprise Data discovery	AWS Glue	Azure Data Catalog	Cloud Data Catalog	A fully managed service that serves as a system of registration and system of discovery for enterprise data sources
NoSQL db	Dynamo DB	Azure Table Storage, Cosmos DB	Cloud Datastore	NoSQL key-value store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets.
Visualization & data Streaming	Kinesis Analytics AWS Athena	Azure Stream Analytics ADLA (Data Lake Analytics) ADLS Gen2	BigQuery	Storage and analysis platforms that create insights from large quantities of data, or data that originates from many sources.
Full text searching capability	Cloud Search	Cognitive Search Azure Search	Cloud Search	Delivers full-text search and related search analytics and capabilities.
BI tool for Visualization	Quicksight	PowerBI	Datastudio Looker	Business intelligence tools that build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and develop business insights from data.
AI Hub	AWS SageMaker	Azure Machine Learning	AI Hub	A cloud service to train, deploy, automate, and manage machine learning models.
Bot Capability	Alexa Skills kit	Azure Bot Framework	Dialogflow	Build and connect intelligent bots that interact with your users using text/SMS, Skype, Teams, Slack, Office 365 mail, Twitter, and other popular services.
Conversational AI (Speech)	Lex	Speech Services	AI Building blocks- Conversation	API capable of converting speech to text, understanding intent, and converting text back to speech for natural responsiveness.
Conversational AI (NLP)	Lex	Azure LUIS	AI Building blocks -Language	A machine learning-based service to build natural language understanding into apps, bots, and IoT devices. Quickly create enterprise-ready, custom models that continuously improve.
Conversational AI(Speech to Text & vice versa)	Polly, Transcribe	Speech Services	AI Building blocks – Conversations	Enables both Speech to Text, and Text into Speech capabilities.
Enterprise AI (Computer Vision) (Face, Emotions detections)	Rekognition	Azure Cognitive Services	AI Building Blocks – Cloud AutoML AI Building Blocks – Sight	Customize and embed state-of-the-art computer vision for specific domains. Build frictionless customer experiences, optimize manufacturing processes, accelerate digital marketing campaigns-and more. No machine learning expertise is required.
Deep Learning	TensorFlow with SageMaker	ONNX ML.NET	TensorFlow	open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for both machine learning & AI
Data Science/Deep Learning VM	AWS Deep Learning AMIs	Azure DSVM	Deep Learning VM Image	Pre-Configured environments in the cloud for Data Science and AI Development.
Notebooks	AWS SageMaker Notebook instances	Azure Notebooks	AI Platform Notebooks	Develop and run code from anywhere with Jupyter notebooks on Azure.
Deep Learning Containers	AWS Deep Learning Containers	GPU Support on AKS	Deep Learning Containers	Graphical processing units (GPUs) are often used for compute-intensive workloads such as graphics and visualization workloads.
Automated Data Labeling	Automate Data Labeling with SageMaker	Azure ML – Data Labeling	Data Labeling Service	A central place to create, manage, and monitor labeling projects (public preview). Use it to coordinate data, labels, and team members to efficiently manage labeling tasks
ML Platform compute	AWS SageMaker ML Instance Types	Azure ML Compute Targets	AI Platform Training	Designated compute resource/environment where you run your training script or host your service deployment. This location may be your local machine or a cloud-based compute resource
ML Service Deployments	SageMaker Hosting Services-Model Deployment	Azure ML – Deployments	AI Platform Predictions	Deploy your machine learning model as a web service in the Azure cloud or to Azure IoT Edge devices
Monitor data drift	SageMaker Model Monitor	Azure ML – Data Drift	Continuous Evaluation	Monitor for data drift between the training dataset and inference data of a deployed model
TPU	AWS Inferencia	Azure ML – FPGA	Cloud TPU	FPGAs contain an array of programmable logic blocks, and a hierarchy of reconfigurable interconnects. The interconnects allow these blocks to be configured in various ways after manufacturing.
ML Ops	MLOps with SageMaker	Azure MLOps	GCP KubeFlow	MLOps, or DevOps for machine learning, enables data science and IT teams to collaborate and increase the pace of model development and deployment via monitoring, validation, and governance of machine learning models.
DevOps & App Monitoring	CloudWatch, X-Ray	Azure Monitor	Operations	Maximizes the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Code collaborations	Code Build CodeDeploy CodeCommit CodePipeline	Azure DevOps (Azure Board, Azure Pipeline, Azure Build & Release, Azure Repos)	Cloud Source Repositories	A cloud service for collaborating on code development.
Automation	OpsWorks	Azure Automations	Cloud Composer	Automation gives you complete control during deployment, operations, and decommissioning of workloads and resources.
Automated Infra Provisioning	CloudFormation	Azure Resource Manager VM extensions Azure Automation	Cloud Deployment Manager	Provides a way for users to automate the manual, long-running, error-prone, and frequently repeated IT tasks.
CLI, SDK interface	AWS CLI	Azure CLI, PowerShell	PowerShell on GCP GCloud SDK	Built on top of the native REST API across all cloud services, various programming language-specific wrappers provide easier ways to create solutions.
Building of Code	AWS CodeBuild	DevOps Build	Cloud Build	Fully managed build service that supports continuous integration and deployment
Managed Artifacts Repository	AWS CodeArtifact	Azure DevOps Artifacts	Artifact Registry	Add fully integrated package management to your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with a single click.
IoT Service	AWS IoT	Azure IoT Hub Azure Event Hub	Cloud IoT Core	A cloud gateway for managing bidirectional communication with billions of IoT devices, securely and at scale.
IoT data processing	AWS Kinesis Firehose, Kinesis Streams	Azure Event Hubs Azure Stream Analytics HDInsight Kafka	Cloud IoT core Cloud Pub/Sub GCP Dataflow	Process and route streaming data to subsequent processing engine or storage or database platform.
IoT on Edge	AWS GreenGrass	Azure IoT Edge	Edge TPU	Deploy cloud intelligence directly on IoT devices to run in on-premises scenarios.
IoT Things Graph/Digital Twins	IoT Things Graph	Azure Digital Twins	Device Registry	Create spatial intelligence graphs to model the relationships and interactions between people, places, and devices. Query data from a physical space rather than disparate sensors.
Messaging Storage	AWS SQS	Azure Queue Storage	Cloud Pub/Sub	Provides a managed message queueing service for communicating between decoupled application components.
Reliable Messaging	SQS	Service Bus Queue	Cloud Pub/Sub	Supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging
Messaging with notification	AWS SNS	Azure Event Grid	Cloud Pub/Sub	A fully managed event routing service that allows for uniform event consumption using a publish/subscribe model.
Cloud Management Advisory	Trusted Advisor	Advisor Azure Security Center	GCP Recommender	Provides analysis of cloud resource configuration and security so subscribers can ensure they’re making use of best practices and optimum configurations.
Billing API	AWS Usage & Billing Report AWS Budgets	Azure Billing API	Cloud Billing	Services to help generate, monitor, forecast, and share billing data for resource usage by time, organization, or product resources
Migrate on-prem workloads	Application Discovery Services	Azure Migrate	Assessment & Migration tool	Assesses on-premises workloads for migration to Azure, performs performance-based sizing, and provides cost estimations.
Telemetry Analysis of lift-shoft	EC2 Systems Manager	Azure Monitor	Operations (formerly StackDriver)	Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Trace	CloudTrail	Azure Monitor	Cloud Trace	Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Logging & Performance Monitoring	CloudWatch	Azure Application Insights	StackDriver Debugging/Logging	Application Insights, is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals.
Cost Management	AWS Cost explorer	Azure Cost Management	GCP Cost Management	Optimize cloud costs while maximizing cloud potential.
Mobile Service	Mobile Hub Mobile SDK Mobile Analytics	Azure Xamarin Apps, App Center	GCP App Engine	Provides backend mobile services for rapid development of mobile solutions, identity management, data synchronization, and storage and notifications across devices.
Device Farm	AWS Device Farm	Azure App Center	Firebase Test Lab	Provides services to support testing mobile applications.
Bulk Data Transfer	Import/Export Disk,	Azure Import/Export	Transfer appliance	A data transport solution that uses secure disks and appliances to transfer large amounts of data. Also offers data protection during transit.
Petabyte to exabyte level data transfer to Cloud	Import/Export Snowball, SnowballEdge, Snowball Mobile	Azure DataBox	Transfer Appliance	Petabyte- to exabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure data storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from Azure
Storage Gateway	AWS Storage Gateway	Azure StoreSimple	Google Cloud Storage	Integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage. Automates data management and storage, plus supports disaster recovery.
Data Sync	AWS Data Sync	Azure File Sync	Cloud Data Transfer	Data sync services
Serverless Workflow	AWS SWF	Azure Logic Apps	GCP Composer	Serverless technology for connecting apps, data and devices anywhere, whether on-premises or in the cloud for large ecosystems of SaaS and cloud-based connectors.
Hybrid	AWS Outposts	Azure Stack Azure ARC	GCP Anthos	For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multi-cloud
Media	AWS Elemental Media Convert Elastic Transcoder	Azure Media Services	GCP Anvato Zync Render Game Servers	Cloud-based media workflow platform to index, package, protect, and stream video at scale.
BlockChain	AWS BlockChain	Azure BlockChain Service	Digital Asset	Azure Blockchain Service is a fully managed ledger service that enables users the ability to grow and operate blockchain networks at scale in Azure
App Services	AWS ELB (Elastic BeanStalk)	Azure App Service	GCP App Engine	Managed hosting platform providing easy to use services for deploying and scaling web applications and services.
API Services	API Gateway	Azure API Management	Apigee API platform, API Analytics	A turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers.
Deploy Web apps	LightSail	Azure App Service	Cloud Run, App Engine	Build, deploy, and scale web apps on a fully managed platform.
Backend Serverless computation	AWS STEP Function	Azure Logic Apps	App Engine	Connect apps, data and devices on-premises or in the cloud.