Sandor Kosztka

The Rosetta stone of public clouds

Have you encountered the problem where you didn’t know how a different cloud provider named their solution for the similar use-case?

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Compute

Description	Azure	Alibaba	AWS	GCP
Virtual Servers	Azure VMs	Elastic Compute Service (ECS)	Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Compute Engine VMs
GPU Servers	Azure VMs (GPU optimized)	Elastic GPU Service (EGS)	EC2 Elastic GPUs	Cloud GPUs
Auto Scaling	VM Scale Sets	Auto Scaling	Auto Scaling	Autoscaler
Container Management	Container Service for Kubernetes (AKS)	Container Service	Elastic Container Service (ECS)	Containers
Pre-emptible VMs	Azure Batch Compute	Alibaba Batch Compute	AWS EC2 Spot Instances	Pre-emptible VMs
High-performance computing	Azure HPC	ECHP	AWS HPC	HPC
Work management	Azure Batch	Batch Compute	AWS Batch	DataFlow
Serverless	Azure Functions	Function Compute	AWS Lambda	Cloud Functions

Storage & CDN

Description	Azure	Alibaba	AWS	GCP
Object Storage	Azure Blob Storage	Object Storage Service (OSS)	Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3)	Cloud Storage
Archival	Azure Archive Storage	OSS (Cold) Archive	S3 Glacier	Cloud Storage for archival
NoSQL Database	Azure Table Storage, CosmosDB	Table Store, MongoDB	DynamoDB, SimpleDB	DataStore
Content Delivery	Azure CDN	Alibaba Cloud CDN	CloudFront	Cloud CDN
Shared File Storage	Azure File Storage, Data Lake Store	Network Attached Storage (NAS)	Elastic File System (EFS)	FileStore
Hybrid Storage	StorSimple	Hybrid Cloud Storage Array	Hybrid Cloud Storage	Through partners

Networking

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
Networking	Virtual Network (VNET)	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Dedicated Connection	ExpressRoute	Express Connect	Direct Connect	Cloud Interconnect
NAT Gateway	part of Network Load Balancer	NAT Gateway	NAT Gateway	Cloud NAT
Load Balancing	Load Balancer	Server load Balancer(SLB)	Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)	Cloud Load Balancing
Elastic IPs	Reserved IP	Elastic IP	Elastic IP Address	Static IP
Cross-premises Connectivity	VPN Gateway	VPN Gateway	VPN Gateway	Cloud VPN

Databases

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
Relational Databases	Azure MySQL / PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, Azure Managed SQL Instances	ApsaraDB for RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL), Distributed RDS	Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS	Cloud SQL, Spanner
Caching	Azure Cache Redis	ApsaraDB for Redis/Memcache	Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached Amazon ElastiCache for Redis	Memorystore
Elastic Data Warehouse	Azrue Synapse Analytics	HybridDB for PostgreSQL	Amazon Redshift	BigQuery
NoSQL - Document Storage	CosmosDB for MongoDB,CosmosDB SQL (aka DocumentDB)	ApsaraDB for MongoDB	Amazon DocumentDB	Firestore
NoSQL – Key/Value	CosmosDB Table, CosmosDB Cassandra	Table Store	Amazon DynamoDB	Cloud BigTable
NoSQL – Graph	CosmosDB Graph (Tinkerpop, Gremlin)	GraphDB (GDB)	Amazon Neptune	N/A
Time-series Database	Time Series Insights	High-Performance Time Series Database	Amazon Timestream	BigTable?
Ledger	Azure Blockchain Tokens	N/A	Amazon QLDB	Through partners
Database Migration	Database Migration Service	Data Transmission Service (DTS)	Database Migration Services (DMS)	Database Migration Service (DMS)

Security

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
DDoS Mitigation	DDoS Protection Service	Anti-DDoS Basic	AWS Shield	Google Cloud Armor
Mobile Security	Intune	Mobile Security	Cognito?	Endpoint management
Web Application Security	Web Application Firewall	Web Application Firewall	Web Application Firewall (WAF)	Cloud Armor WAF
Instance Security	N/A	Server Guard	N/A	N/A
Certificate Service	Part of Azure AppService	SSL Certificates Service	Certificate Manager	Yes

Monitoring & Management

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
Monitoring	Azure Monitor	CloudMonitor	CloudWatch	Cloud Monitoring
Authentication and Authorization	Azure Active Directory	Resource Access Management	Identity & Access Management(IAM)	Cloud Identity & Access Management
Key Mgmt	Azure KeyVault	Key Management Service	Key Management Service (KMS)	Cloud Key Management
Resource Orchestration	Azure Resource Manager	Resource Orchestration Service	CloudFormation	Cloud Composer

Domains & Webapps

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
Web Applications	Azure AppService	Web Hosting	Elastic Beanstalk	App Engine
Domain Name	Azure DNS	Domains	Route 53	Google Domains
Domain Name System (DNS)	Azure DNS, Azure Traffic Manager	Alibaba Cloud DNS	Route 53	Cloud DNS

Analytics

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
Big Data Processing	Azure Databricks	MaxCompute, E-MapReduce	Amazon EMR	Dataproc
Data Visualization	PowerBI	DataV, QuickBI	Amazon QuickSight	Data Studio, Looker
Development Platform	Data Lake analytics	DataWorks	Data Lake

Application Service

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP
Notification Service	Notification Hubs, Azure Event Grid	Message Service	Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)	N/A
API Service	API Management	API Gateway	API Gateway	Cloud APIs
Log Service	Log Analytics, App Insights	Log Service	CloudWatch Logs	Cloud Logging
Email Sending and Receiving	Through 3rd party offering SendGrid	DirectMail	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	through SendGrid
Queues	Azure Queue Storage, Azure Service Bus	Message Queue	Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)	Pub/Sub

Media Services

Description	Azure	Alibaba Cloud	AWS	GCP