| Compute |
IaaS |
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) |
Virtual Machines |
Compute Engine (GCE) |
vSphere,
ProxMox,
vrt-manager |
|
Auto scaling |
Auto Scaling |
Virtual Machine Scale Sets |
Managed Instance Groups,
Autoscaler |
Cluster Autoscaler |
|
VM migration |
Server Migration Service |
Migrate |
Migrate for Compute Engine |
|
|
PaaS |
Copilot,
Elastic Beanstalk |
App Service |
App Engine |
Dokku,
CapRover,
Porter,
Coolify |
|
Ephemeral |
EC2 Spot Instances |
Spot Virtual Machines |
Preemptible VMs |
(
Spot,
DigitalOcean,
Vultr) |
|
Container orchestration |
Elastic Container Service (ECS),
Fargate |
Container Instances (ACI) |
Cloud Run |
Docker/
Compose/
Swarm,
Nomad |
|
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 |
|
Container migration |
App2Container |
Migrate |
Migrate for Anthos |
|
|
Container registry |
EC2 Container Registry (ECR) |
Container Registry (ACR) |
Artifact Registry |
Harbor, (
GitHub,
Quay) |
|
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 Balancer
Application 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 |
