| Compute |
IaaS |
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) |
Virtual Machines |
Compute Engine (GCE) |
vSphere, ProxMox, vrt-manager |
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Auto scaling |
Auto Scaling |
Virtual Machine Scale Sets |
Managed Instance Groups, Autoscaler |
Cluster Autoscaler |
|
VM migration |
Server Migration Service |
Migrate |
Migrate for Compute Engine |
|
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PaaS |
Copilot, Elastic Beanstalk |
App Service |
App Engine |
Dokku, CapRover, Porter, Coolify |
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Ephemeral |
EC2 Spot Instances |
Spot Virtual Machines |
Preemptible VMs |
(Spot, DigitalOcean, Vultr) |
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Container orchestration |
Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate |
Container Instances (ACI) |
Cloud Run |
Docker/Compose/Swarm, Nomad |
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Managed Kubernetes |
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) |
Kubernetes Service (AKS) |
Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
(Civo), Kubernetes |
|
Sovereign Kubernetes |
EKS Anywhere |
Arc |
Anthos Clusters |
Rancher, OpenShift, Sidero/Talos |
|
Serverless containers |
App Runner |
Container Instances |
Cloud Run |
(Fly), Knative, OpenFaaS |
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Container migration |
App2Container |
Migrate |
Migrate for Anthos |
|
|
Container registry |
EC2 Container Registry (ECR) |
Container Registry (ACR) |
Artifact Registry |
Harbor, (GitHub, Quay) |
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Serverless functions |
Lambda |
Functions |
Cloud Functions |
Knative, OpenFaaS, (Vercel Now, Cloudflare Workers) |
|
Encrypted compute |
Nitro Enclaves |
Confidential Computing |
Confidential Computing |
vSphere SEV-ES |
|
Process logic |
Step Functions, Simple Workflow Service (SWF) |
Logic Apps |
Cloud Workflows |
Direktiv, n8n, NodeRED |
|
Managed batch |
Batch |
Batch |
Batch |
Kubernetes Jobs, Nomad Batch |
|
Media transcoding |
Elastic Transcoder, MediaConvert |
Media Services |
Transcoder API |
ffmpeg |
|
Media streaming |
MediaPackage |
Media Services |
Video Intelligence Streaming API |
|
|
Hybrid |
Outposts |
Stack, Site Recovery, Arc |
Anthos, Distributed Cloud |
vSphere, Pivotal Cloud Foundry |
| Network |
Virtual network |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), NAT Gateway |
Virtual Network, NAT |
Virtual Private Cloud, Cloud NAT |
ACI, NSX |
|
Network monitoring |
VPC Flow Logs |
Network Watcher |
VPC Flow Logs |
Hubble |
|
Load balancer |
Network Load Balancer (ELB)Application Load Balancer (ALB) |
Load BalancerApplication Gateway |
Cloud Load Balancing |
HAProxy, Traefik |
|
Global load balancer |
Global Accelerator |
Front Door |
Cloud Load Balancing |
(Cloudflare), Avi, K8GB |
|
DNS |
Route 53 |
DNS, Traffic Manager |
Cloud DNS |
CoreDNS, Unbound, PowerDNS |
|
Domains |
Route 53 |
NONE |
Cloud Domains |
(Cloudflare) |
|
CDN |
CloudFront |
Content Delivery Network |
Cloud CDN |
(Cloudflare) |
|
Firewall |
Web Application Firewall (WAF) |
WAF on Application Gateway, Firewall |
Cloud Armor |
Palo Alto, Fortinet, Calico |
|
DDoS Protection |
Shield |
DDoS Protection |
Cloud Armor |
(Cloudflare) |
|
Dedicated interconnect |
Direct Connect |
ExpressRoute |
Hybrid Connectivity, Cloud Interconnect |
Colo Peering |
|
Cross-premises connectivity |
VPN |
VPN Gateway |
Cloud VPN, Cloud Router |
WireGuard, Netmaker, Innernet, (Tailscale) |
|
Service mesh |
App Mesh |
Service Fabric Mesh |
Traffic Director , Istio on GKE, Anthos Service Mesh |
Istio, Linkerd, Maesh, ConsulConnect |
|
Service discovery |
Cloud Map |
Consul on Azure |
Service Directory |
Consul |
| Storage |
Object storage |
Simple Storage Service (S3) |
Blob Storage |
Cloud Storage |
Minio, Garage, (Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi) |
|
Block storage |
Elastic Block Store (EBS) |
Managed Disks |
Persistent Disk |
ZFS, vSAN, OpenEBS, Longhorn |
|
File storage |
Elastic File System (EFS) |
Files |
Cloud Filestore |
NFS, SMB |
|
Reduced-availability storage |
S3 Infrequent Access |
Storage Cool Tier |
Cloud Storage Nearline, Cloud Storage Coldline |
(Backblaze B2, Storj, Wasabi) |
|
Archival storage |
Glacier |
Storage Archive Tier |
Cloud Storage Archive |
(Backblaze B2, Storj, Wasabi) |
|
Backup |
Backup |
Backup |
|
Veeam B&R, restic, Velero, Kasten |
|
Memory cache |
ElasticCache (Redis+memcached) |
Cache |
Memorystore (Redis) |
memcached, Redis |
|
Storage encryption |
S3 + KMS |
Storage Service Encryption |
Customer Supplied Keys |
LUKS, Bitlocker, GoCryptFS |
|
Hybrid |
Storage Gateway |
StorSimple |
NONE |
TrueNAS, vSAN |
|
Migration appliance |
Snowcone, Snowball, Snowmobile |
Data Box |
Transfer Appliance |
|
|
Migration service |
DataSync, Transfer |
Import/Export |
Storage Transfer Service |
|
| Database |
RDBMS |
Relational Database Service (RDS), Aurora |
SQL Database (MSSQL), Database for MySQL, Database for Postgres |
Cloud SQL |
(Aiven, Planetscale), Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL |
|
Sharded RDBMS |
Aurora |
Cosmos DB for Postgres (nee Hyperscale, nee Citus) |
Cloud Spanner |
CockroachDB, TiKV |
|
NoSQL: Key-value |
DynamoDB |
Cosmos DB |
Firestore, Cloud Bigtable |
Redis, Cassandra |
|
NoSQL: Indexed |
DocumentDB |
Cosmos DB |
Datastore |
MongoDB, CouchDB |
|
Migration |
Database Migration Service |
Database Migration Service |
Database Migration Service |
|
| Big Data & Analytics |
Batch data processing |
Elastic MapReduce (EMR) |
HDInsight (Hadoop), Databricks (Spark) |
Cloud Dataproc (Hadoop+Spark), Cloud Dataflow (Beam) |
Hadoop, Spark, Beam |
|
Stream data processing |
Kinesis Analytics (Kafka) |
Stream Analytics |
Cloud Dataflow (Beam) |
Kafka Stream, Spark Streaming, Storm, Flink |
|
Stream data ingest |
Kinesis Firehose, Kinesis Streams (Kafka) |
Event Hubs, Service Bus |
Cloud Pub/Sub |
Kafka, NATS |
|
Analytics |
Quicksight |
Power BI, Data Lake Analytics |
Looker, Data Studio |
Superset, Metabase, Redash |
|
Workflow orchestration / ETL |
AppFlow, Data Pipeline, Glue |
Data Factory |
Data Fusion, Cloud Composer (Airflow) |
Airflow |
|
Data warehouse |
Athena, Redshift |
Synapse Analytics |
BigQuery |
(Snowflake), Clickhouse |
|
Data catalog |
Glue |
Purview, Data Catalog |
Data Catalog |
|
|
Email |
Simple Email Service (SES) |
NONE |
NONE |
(SendGrid, MailGun) |
| Machine Learning |
Platform |
Tensorflow |
Databricks (Spark) |
TensorFlow Enterprise |
|
|
Speech |
Transcribe |
Cognitive Services (Speech) |
Cloud Speech-to-Text |
|
|
Vision |
Rekognition |
Cognitive Services (Computer Vision API) |
Vision AI |
OpenCV, TensorFlow |
|
Video |
Rekognition Video |
Video Analyzer |
Video Intelligence API, Video AI |
|
|
Natural language processing |
Comprehend |
Cognitive Services (Text Analytics API) |
Cloud Natural Language |
OpenNLP |
|
Translation |
Translate |
Cognitive Services (Translation API) |
Cloud Translation |
OpenNMT, ModernMT |
|
Text to speech |
Polly |
Cognitive Services (Speech) |
Cloud Speech / Natural Language |
DeepSpeech, wav2letter, MaryTTS |
|
Conversational interface |
Lex |
Bot Service (Conversational AI), LUIS |
Dialogflow |
Rasa, spaCy |
|
Video intelligence |
Rekognition Video |
Media Services (Video Indexer) |
Cloud Video Intelligence |
OpenCV, TensorFlow |
|
Bot connection |
Alexa Skills Kit |
Bot Framework, Virtual Assistant |
NONE |
|
|
Auto-generated models |
SageMaker Autopilot |
Automated Machine Learning |
Vertex AI AutoML |
|
|
Fully managed ML |
SageMaker |
Machine Learning, AI Platform |
Vertex AI |
|
| Application services |
SCM |
CodeCommit |
DevOps, GitHub |
Cloud Source Repositories |
(GitHub), GitLab, Gitea |
|
Continuous Integration |
CodeBuild, CodePipeline |
DevOps, GitHub Actions |
Cloud Build |
Argo Workflows, Concourse, Drone |
|
Continuous Deployment |
CodeDeploy |
DevOps |
Cloud Deploy, Spinnaker |
Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, (Harness), Flux, Flagger, Spinnaker |
|
Messaging |
Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS) |
Service Bus, Queue Storage, Event Grid |
Cloud Pub/Sub |
NATS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Centrifugo |
|
Search |
CloudSearch, ElasticSearch |
Search |
NONE |
Typesense, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Solr |
|
Authentication |
Cognito, Single Sign On |
AAD B2C, Active Directory |
Firebase Auth, Identity Platform |
ORY Hydra, Keycloak, Supabase |
|
API gateway |
API Gateway |
API Management |
Apigee, Cloud Endpoints |
Kong, emissary-ingress, Tyk |
|
Event handling |
EventBridge |
Event Grid |
Eventarc |
Argo Events, VMware VEBA |
|
Low/no code |
Honeycode |
Power Platform |
AppSheet |
(Zapier, Make, Tray) Appsmith, Windmill, Budibase |
|
Hosting |
Amplify |
Static Web Apps, GitHub Pages |
Firebase Hosting |
(Render, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel) |
| Mobile services |
Mobile app backend |
Mobile Hub |
App Center, Xamarin Apps |
Firebase |
Supabase, Appwrite, Space Cloud |
|
Mobile app analytics |
Mobile Analytics |
App Center |
Firebase Analytics |
|
|
Mobile app testing |
Device Farm |
App Center |
Firebase Test Lab |
|
|
IoT gateway |
IoT |
IoT Hub |
IoT Core |
|
|
IoT compute |
Greengrass |
IoT Edge |
IoT Edge |
|
| Management |
Authentication |
Identity and Access Management (IAM) |
Identity Management |
Identity and Access Management |
Keycloak, Dex, (Okta), Active Directory |
|
Account partitioning |
Organizations |
Subscription Management, Policy, Management Groups |
Organizations |
|
|
Monitoring |
CloudWatch, EC2 Systems Manager |
Monitor |
Cloud Monitoring |
Prometheus, Grafana, (Datadog) |
|
Logging |
CloudWatch Logs |
Monitor Logs |
Cloud Logging |
Loki, EFK, Splunk, (Datadog) |
|
Tracing |
X-Ray |
Monitor Application Insights Distributed Tracing |
Cloud Trace |
Jaeger, Tempo, Signoz, (Datadog) |
|
Profiling |
CloudGuru Profiler |
Monitor Application Insights Profiler |
Cloud Profiler |
Pixie, Parca, Pyroscope, Phlare |
|
Debugging |
X-Ray |
Monitor Application Insights Snapshot Debugger |
Cloud Debugger |
(Rollbar, Sentry) |
|
Deployment |
CloudFormation, Cloud Development Kit (CDK) |
Resource Manager, Bicep, Automation |
Cloud Deployment Manager |
Terraform, Pulumi, Tinkerbell |
|
IaC via Kubernetes CRD’s |
Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) |
Service Operator |
Config Connector |
Crossplane |
|
CLI |
CLI, PowerShell |
CLI, PowerShell |
CLI, PowerShell |
kubectl, PowerCLI |
|
Shell |
CloudShell |
Cloud Shell |
Cloud Shell |
Teleport |
|
Bastion |
EC2 Instance Connect |
Bastion, AD Application Proxy |
OS Login, Browser SSH |
Teleport, Boundary |
|
Web Portal |
Management Console |
Portal |
Console |
Backstage, Compass |
|
Audit logging |
CloudTrail |
Audit Logs |
Cloud Audit Logs |
|
|
Cost management |
Budgets, Cost Explorer |
Cloud Cost Management |
Cost Management |
|
|
Billing |
Usage and Billing Report, Cost Explorer |
Billing API |
Cloud Billing |
Mist |
|
Resource metadata |
Config |
Application Change Analysis |
Cloud Asset Inventory |
|
|
Secrets |
Secrets Manager |
Key Vault |
Secrets Manager |
Vault |
|
Encryption |
Key Management Service (KMS), |
Key Vault |
Cloud KMS |
Vault |
|
Certificate management |
Certificate Manager |
NONE |
Certificate Authority Service |
Vault |
|
HSM |
Cloud HSM |
Dedicated HSM |
Cloud HSM |
Vault |
|
Best practice analysis |
Trusted Advisor, Inspector, Audit Manager |
Advisor, Security Center |
Recommender, Active Assist, Security Scanner |
|
|
SIEM |
GuardDuty |
Sentinel, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) |
Security Command Center, Event Threat Detection |
Palo Alto, Fortinet, Elastic, Splunk, Panther |
|
Data classification |
Macie |
Information Protection (AIP) |
Cloud Data Loss Prevention |
|
|
Audit compliance |
Artifact |
Service Trust Portal |
Compliance |
|
|
Lift and shift |
Application Discovery Service |
Migrate |
Migrate |
|
| Traditional services |
Directory/Domain |
Directory Service |
Active Directory Domain Services |
Managed Microsoft AD, Cloud Identity |
FreeIPA, Active Directory |
|
Multifactor authentication |
Multifactor Authentication |
Multifactor Authentication |
Cloud Identity |
Keycloak, FusionAuth, (Duo) |
|
File sync |
WorkDocs |
OneDrive |
Drive |
(Sync, Dropbox), NextCloud, Syncthing |
|
Email / calendar |
WorkMail |
Office 365 |
G Suite |
(Fastmail), Exchange, Mailcow |
|
Office suite |
NONE |
Office 365 |
G Suite |
Office 2019, OpenOffice, NextCloud |
|
VMware IaaS |
VMware Cloud |
VMware Solution |
VMware Engine |
vSphere |
