{"id":22529,"date":"2025-03-03T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T11:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=22529"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T11:11:22","slug":"aws-azure-google-cloud-service-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/aws-azure-google-cloud-service-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Vs Azure vs Google Cloud Service Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here’s a comparison table<\/strong> of AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud<\/strong> service terminology for key cloud services:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2601\ufe0f AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: Service Terminology Comparison<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Category<\/strong><\/th>AWS<\/strong><\/th>Azure<\/strong><\/th>Google Cloud (GCP)<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Virtual Machines<\/strong><\/td>EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)<\/td>Virtual Machines (VMs)<\/td>Compute Engine<\/td><\/tr>
Containers & Kubernetes<\/strong><\/td>ECS (Elastic Container Service), EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), Fargate<\/td>AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), ACI (Azure Container Instances)<\/td>GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Run<\/td><\/tr>
Serverless Computing<\/strong><\/td>Lambda<\/td>Functions<\/td>Cloud Functions<\/td><\/tr>
Object Storage<\/strong><\/td>S3 (Simple Storage Service)<\/td>Blob Storage<\/td>Cloud Storage<\/td><\/tr>
Block Storage<\/strong><\/td>EBS (Elastic Block Store)<\/td>Managed Disks<\/td>Persistent Disks<\/td><\/tr>
File Storage<\/strong><\/td>EFS (Elastic File System), FSx<\/td>Azure Files<\/td>Filestore<\/td><\/tr>
Databases (Relational)<\/strong><\/td>RDS (Relational Database Service), Aurora<\/td>Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL\/MySQL<\/td>Cloud SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)<\/td><\/tr>
Databases (NoSQL)<\/strong><\/td>DynamoDB<\/td>Cosmos DB<\/td>Firestore, Bigtable<\/td><\/tr>
Data Warehousing<\/strong><\/td>Redshift<\/td>Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse)<\/td>BigQuery<\/td><\/tr>
Big Data & Analytics<\/strong><\/td>EMR (Elastic MapReduce), Glue, Athena<\/td>HDInsight, Data Lake Analytics<\/td>Dataproc, Dataflow, BigQuery<\/td><\/tr>
Machine Learning & AI<\/strong><\/td>SageMaker, Rekognition, Lex, Polly<\/td>Azure ML, Cognitive Services<\/td>Vertex AI, AutoML, AI APIs<\/td><\/tr>
Networking – Load Balancing<\/strong><\/td>Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)<\/td>Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway<\/td>Cloud Load Balancing<\/td><\/tr>
Networking – VPC<\/strong><\/td>VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)<\/td>Virtual Network (VNet)<\/td>VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)<\/td><\/tr>
Networking – CDN<\/strong><\/td>CloudFront<\/td>Azure CDN<\/td>Cloud CDN<\/td><\/tr>
Identity & Access Management<\/strong><\/td>IAM (Identity & Access Management)<\/td>Azure AD (Active Directory)<\/td>IAM (Identity & Access Management)<\/td><\/tr>
Monitoring & Logging<\/strong><\/td>CloudWatch, CloudTrail<\/td>Azure Monitor, Log Analytics<\/td>Stackdriver (now Cloud Operations)<\/td><\/tr>
Security & Key Management<\/strong><\/td>KMS (Key Management Service), AWS Shield<\/td>Azure Key Vault<\/td>Cloud KMS, Security Command Center<\/td><\/tr>
DevOps & CI\/CD<\/strong><\/td>CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy<\/td>Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines<\/td>Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy<\/td><\/tr>
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud<\/strong><\/td>Outposts, Wavelength<\/td>Azure Stack, Arc<\/td>Anthos<\/td><\/tr>
IoT Services<\/strong><\/td>AWS IoT Core<\/td>Azure IoT Hub<\/td>Cloud IoT Core<\/td><\/tr>
Edge Computing<\/strong><\/td>AWS Wavelength, Greengrass<\/td>Azure Edge Zones<\/td>Google Distributed Cloud<\/td><\/tr>
Message Queue<\/strong><\/td>SQS (Simple Queue Service), SNS (Simple Notification Service)<\/td>Azure Service Bus, Event Grid<\/td>Pub\/Sub<\/td><\/tr>
DNS & Domain Management<\/strong><\/td>Route 53<\/td>Azure DNS<\/td>Cloud DNS<\/td><\/tr>
Backup & Disaster Recovery<\/strong><\/td>AWS Backup<\/td>Azure Backup<\/td>Google Cloud Backup & DR<\/td><\/tr>
Enterprise Search<\/strong><\/td>OpenSearch Service (formerly Elasticsearch)<\/td>Azure Cognitive Search<\/td>Cloud Search<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2705 AWS<\/strong> \u2013 Best for a wide range of services, enterprise adoption, and global reach<\/strong>.
\u2705 Azure<\/strong> \u2013 Strong in enterprise & hybrid cloud<\/strong>, best for Microsoft ecosystem.
\u2705 Google Cloud<\/strong> \u2013 Best for AI\/ML, data analytics, and Kubernetes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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