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Compute
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Virtual
servers
Elastic
Compute
Cloud (EC2)
VMs
Azure Virtual
Machines
Virtual servers allow users to deploy, manage, and maintain OS and server
software. Instance types provide combinations of CPU/RAM. Users pay for
what they use with the flexibility to change sizes.
Amazon
Lightsail
Azure Virtual
Machines &
Images
Collection of virtual machine templates to select from when building out your
virtual machine.
Container
management
EC2
Container
Service
(ECS)
Azure Container
Service
A container management service that supports Docker containers and allows
users to run applications on managed instance clusters. It eliminates the need to
operate cluster management software or design fault-tolerant cluster
architectures.
EC2
Container
Registry
Azure Container
Registry
Allows customers to store Docker formatted images. Used to create all types of
container deployments on Azure.
Microservice-
based
applications
None Service Fabric A compute service that orchestrates and manages the execution, lifetime, and
resilience of complex, inter-related code components that can be either
stateless or stateful.
Backend
process logic
Lambda Functions Used to integrate systems and run backend processes in response to events or
schedules without provisioning or managing servers.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Lambda @
Edge
None Runs Lambda functions on AWS Edge locations in response to CloudFront
events.
Job
orchestration
AWS Batch Azure Batch Orchestration of the tasks and interactions between compute resources that are
needed when you require processing across hundreds or thousands of compute
nodes.
Scalability AWS Auto
Scaling
Virtual Machine
Scale Sets
Azure App
Service Scale
Capability
(PAAS)
Azure
AutoScaling
Lets you automatically change the number of instances providing a particular
compute workload. You set defined metric and thresholds that determine if the
platform adds or removes instances.
Predefined
templates
AWS Quick
Start
Azure Quickstart
templates
Community-led templates for creating and deploying virtual machine–based
solutions.
Storage
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Object
storage
Simple
Storage
Services (S3)
Azure Storage—
Block Blob (for
Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content
distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
content logs, files)
(Standard—Hot)
Virtual
Server disk
infrastructure
Elastic Block
Store (EBS)
Azure Storage Disk—
Page Blobs (for
VHDs or other
random-write type
data)
Azure Storage
Disks—Premium
Storage
SSD storage optimized for I/O intensive read/write operations. For use as
high performance Azure virtual machine storage.
Shared file
storage
Elastic File
System
Azure File Storage
(file share between
VMs)
Provides a simple interface to create and configure file systems quickly,
and share common files. It’s shared file storage without the need for a
supporting virtual machine, and can be used with traditional protocols that
access files over a network.
Archiving—
cool storage
S3 IA Glacier Azure Storage—
Standard Cool
Cool storage is a lower cost tier for storing data that is infrequently
accessed and long-lived.
Backup None Azure Backup Backup and archival solutions allow files and folders to be backed up and
recovered from the cloud, and provide off-site protection against data loss.
There are two components of backup—the software service that
orchestrates backup/retrieval and the underlying backup storage
infrastructure.
Hybrid
storage
Storage
Gateway
StorSimple Integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage. Automates
data management and storage, plus supports disaster recovery.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Bulk data
transfer
AWS
Import/Export
Disk
Import/Export A data transport solution that uses secure disks and appliances to transfer
large amounts of data. Also offers data protection during transit.
AWS
Import/Export
Snowball
AWS
Snowball
Edge
AWS
Snowmobile
None Petabyte- to Exabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure data
storage devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS
cloud, at lower cost than Internet-based transfers.
Disaster
recovery
None Site Recovery Automates protection and replication of virtual machines. Offers health
monitoring, recovery plans, and recovery plan testing.
Networking & Content Delivery
Area
AWS
service
Azure
service Description
Cloud virtual
networking
Virtual
Private
Cloud
Virtual
Network
Provides an isolated, private environment in the cloud. Users have control over their
virtual networking environment, including selection of their own IP address range,
creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
Area
AWS
service
Azure
service Description
Cross-
premises
connectivity
AWS VPC
Gateway
Azure VPN
Gateway
Azure VPN Gateways connect Azure virtual networks to other Azure virtual
networks, or customer on-premises networks (Site To Site). It also allows end users
to connect to Azure services through VPN tunneling (Point To Site).
Domain name
system
management
Route 53 Azure DNS Manage your DNS records using the same credentials and billing and support
contract as your other Azure services
Route 53 Traffic
Manager
A service that hosts domain names, plus routes users to Internet applications,
connects user requests to datacenters, manages traffic to apps, and improves app
availability with automatic failover.
Content
delivery
network
CloudFront Azure
Content
Delivery
Network
A global content delivery network that delivers audio, video, applications, images,
and other files.
Dedicated
network
Direct
Connect
ExpressRoute Establishes a dedicated, private network connection from a location to the cloud
provider (not over the Internet).
Load
balancing
Elastic
Load
Balancing
Load
Balancer
Application
Gateway
Automatically distributes incoming application traffic to add scale, handle failover,
and route to a collection of resources.
Database
Area AWS Service Azure Service Description
Relational
database
RDS SQL Database
Azure Database
for MySQL
Azure Database
for PostgreSQL
Relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) where the database
resilience, scale, and maintenance are primarily handled by the
platform.
NoSQL—
document
storage
DynamoDB Cosmos DB A globally distributed, multi-model database that natively supports
multiple data models: key-value, documents, graphs, and columnar.
NoSQL—
key/value
storage
DynamoDB and
SimpleDB
Table Storage A nonrelational data store for semi-structured data. Developers store
and query data items via web services requests.
Caching ElastiCache Azure Redis
Cache
An in-memory–based, distributed caching service that provides a high-
performance store typically used to offload nontransactional work from
a database.
Database
migration
Database Migration
Service (Preview)
Azure Database
Migration Service
Typically is focused on the migration of database schema and data
from one database format to a specific database technology in the
cloud.
Analytics and big data
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
Elastic data
warehouse
Redshift SQL Data
Warehouse
A fully managed data warehouse that analyzes data using business intelligence
tools. It can transact SQL queries across relational and nonrelational data.
Big data
processing
Elastic
MapReduce
(EMR)
HDInsight Supports technologies that break up large data processing tasks into multiple jobs,
and then combine the results to enable massive parallelism.
Data
orchestration
Data
Pipeline
Data Factory Processes and moves data between different compute and storage services, as well
as on-premises data sources at specified intervals. Users can create, schedule,
orchestrate, and manage data pipelines.
AWS Glue
(Preview)
Data Factory
+ Data
Category
Cloud-based ETL/data integration service that orchestrates and automates the
movement and transformation of data from various sources.
Analytics Kinesis
Analytics
Stream
Analytics
Data Lake
Analytics
Data Lake
Store
Storage and analysis platforms that create insights from large quantities of data, or
data that originates from many sources.
Visualization QuickSight
(Preview)
PowerBI Business intelligence tools that build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and
develop business insights from data.
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
None Power BI
Embedded
Allows visualization and data analysis tools to be embedded in applications.
Search Elasticsearch
Service
Marketplace—
Elasticsearch
A scalable search server based on Apache Lucene.
CloudSearch Azure Search Delivers full-text search and related search analytics and capabilities.
Machine
learning
Machine
Learning
Machine
Learning
Produces an end-to-end workflow to create, process, refine, and publish predictive
models that can be used to understand what might happen from complex data sets.
Data
discovery
None Data Catalog Provides the ability to better register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume
data sources.
Amazon
Athena
None Provides a serverless interactive query service that uses standard SQL for analyzing
databases.
Intelligence
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
Conversational user
interfaces virtual
personal assistant
Alexa Skills
Kits
Cortana Intelligence
Suite —Cortana
Integration
Services cover intelligence cognitive services, machine learning,
analytics, information management, big data and dashboards and
visualizations.
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
Microsoft Bot
Framework + Azure
Bot Service
Builds and connects intelligent bots that interact with your users
using text/SMS, Skype, Teams, Slack, Office 365 mail, Twitter,
and other popular services.
Speech recognition Amazon
Lex
Bing Speech API API capable of converting speech to text, understanding intent,
and converting text back to speech for natural responsiveness.
Language
Understanding
Intelligent Service
(LUIS)
Allows your applications to understand user commands
contextually.
Speaker Recognition
API
Gives your app the ability to recognize individual speakers.
Custom Recognition
Intelligent Service
(CRIS)
Fine-tunes speech recognition to eliminate barriers such as
speaking style, background noise, and vocabulary.
Text to Speech Amazon
Polly
Bing Speech API Enables both Speech to Text, and Text into Speech capabilities.
Visual recognition Amazon
Rekognition
Computer Vision API Distills actionable information from images, generates captions
and identifies objects in images.
Face API Detects, identifies, analyzes, organizes, and tags faces in photos.
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
Emotions API Recognizes emotions in images.
Video API Intelligent video processing produces stable video output,
detects motion, creates intelligent thumbnails, detects and tracks
faces.
Internet of things (IoT)
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Internet
of Things
AWS IoT Other Services
(Kinesis, Machine Learning,
EMR, Data Pipeline, SNS,
QuickSight)
Azure IoT Suite (IoT Hub,
Machine Learning, Stream
Analytics, Notification Hubs,
PowerBI)
Provides a preconfigured solution for monitoring,
maintaining, and deploying common IoT scenarios.
AWS IoT Azure IoT Hub A cloud gateway for managing bidirectional
communication with billions of IoT devices,
securely and at scale.
AWS Greengrass - Software
for Connected Devices
Azure IoT Gateway SDK Contains the infrastructure and modules to create
IoT gateway solutions. The SDK can be used and
extended to create gateways tailored to any end-to-
end scenario.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Streaming
data
Kinesis Firehose
Kinesis Streams
Event Hubs Services that allow the mass ingestion of small data
inputs, typically from devices and sensors, to
process and route the data.
Management & monitoring
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Cloud advisor Trusted Advisor Azure Advisor Provides analysis of cloud resource configuration and security so
subscribers can ensure they’re making use of best practices and
optimum configurations.
Deployment
orchestration
(DevOps)
OpsWorks
(Chef-based)
Azure Automation Configures and operates applications of all shapes and sizes, and
provides templates to create and manage a collection of resources.
CloudFormation Azure Resource Manager
VM extensions
Azure Automation
Provides a way for users to automate the manual, long-running,
error-prone, and frequently repeated IT tasks.
Management
& monitoring
(DevOps)
CloudWatch Azure portal
Azure Monitor)
A unified console that simplifies building, deploying, and
managing your cloud resources.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
CloudWatch Azure Application
Insights + Azure Monitor
An extensible analytics service that helps you understand the
performance and usage of your live web application. It's designed
for developers, to help you continuously improve the performance
and usability of your app.
AWS X-Ray Azure Application
Insights + Azure Monitor
An extensible application performance management service for
web developers on multiple platforms. You can use it to monitor
your live web application, detect performance anomalies, and
diagnose issues with your app.
AWS Usage
and Billing
Report
Azure Billing API Services to help generate, monitor, forecast, and share billing data
for resource usage by time, organization, or product resources.
AWS
Management
Console
Azure portal A unified management console that simplifies building, deploying,
and operating your cloud resources.
Administration AWS
Application
Discovery
Service
Azure Log Analytics in
Operations Management
Suite
Provides deeper insights into your application and workloads by
collecting, correlating and visualizing all your machine data, such
as event logs, network logs, performance data, and much more,
from both on-premises and cloud assets.
Amazon EC2
Systems
Manager
Microsoft Operations
Management Suite—
Automation and Control
functionalities
Enables continuous IT services and compliance through process
automation and configuration management. You can transform
complex and repetitive tasks with IT automation.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
AWS Personal
Health
Dashboard
Azure Resource Health
(Preview)
Provides detailed information about the health of resources as well
as recommended actions for maintaining resource health.
Third Party Azure Storage Explorer Standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with
Azure Storage data on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Mobile services
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
Pro app
development
Mobile
Hub
Mobile Apps
Xamarin Apps
Provides backend mobile services for rapid development of mobile solutions,
identity management, data synchronization, and storage and notifications across
devices.
Mobile
SDK
Mobile Apps Provides the technology to rapidly build cross-platform and native apps for
mobile devices.
Cognito Mobile Apps Provides authentication capabilities for mobile applications.
App testing AWS
Device
Farm
Xamarin Test
Cloud (front
end)
Provides services to support testing mobile applications.
Area
AWS
service Azure service Description
Analytics Mobile
Analytics
HockeyApp
Application
Insights
Supports monitoring, and feedback collection for the debugging and analysis of a
mobile application service quality.
Enterprise
mobility
management
None Intune Provides mobile device management, mobile application management, and PC
management capabilities from the cloud.
Security, identity, and access
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Authentication
and
authorization
Identity and
Access
Management
(IAM)
Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory
Premium
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.
AWS
Organizations
Azure Subscription and
Service Management +
Azure RBAC
Security policy and role management for working with multiple
accounts.
Multi-Factor
Authentication
Multi-Factor
Authentication
Helps safeguard access to data and applications while meeting
user demand for a simple sign-in process. It delivers strong
authentication with a range of verification options, allowing users
to choose the method they prefer.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Information
protection
None Azure Information
Protection
Service to help control and secure email, documents, and
sensitive data that you share outside your company walls.
Encryption Server-side
encryption with
Amazon S3 Key
Management
Service
Azure Storage Service
Encryption
Helps you protect and safeguard your data and meet your
organizational security and compliance commitments.
Key Management
Service
CloudHSM
Key Vault 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).
Firewall Web Application
Firewall
Application Gateway
Web Application
Firewall (preview)
A firewall that protects web applications from common web
exploits. Users can define customizable web security rules.
Security Inspector Security Center An automated security assessment service that improves the
security and compliance of applications. Automatically assess
applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices.
Certificate
Manager
App Service Certificates
available on the Portal
Service that allows customers to create, manage and consume
certificates seamlessly in the cloud.
Directory
services
AWS Directory
Service +
Windows Server
Active Directory
on AWS
Azure Active Directory
Domain Services +
Windows Server Active
Directory on Azure IaaS
Comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution
that provides a robust set of capabilities to manage users and
groups. It helps secure access to on-premises and cloud
applications, including Microsoft online services like Office 365
and many non-Microsoft SaaS applications.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
None Azure Active Directory
B2C
A highly available, global, identity management service for
consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions
of identities.
AWS Directory
Service
Windows Server Active
Directory
Services for supporting Microsoft Active Directory in the cloud.
Compliance AWS Artifact Microsoft Service Trust
Portal
Provides access to audit reports, compliance guides, and trust
documents from across cloud services.
Security AWS Shield Azure Marketplace—
Security
Provides cloud services with protection from distributed denial of
services (DDoS) attacks.
Developer tools
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Media
transcoding
Elastic
Transcoder
Media
Services
Services that offer broadcast-quality video streaming services, including
various transcoding technologies.
Email Simple Email
Service (SES)
Marketplace—
Services for integrating email functionality into applications.
Messaging Simple Queue
Service (SQS)
Azure Queue
Storage
Provides a managed message queueing service for communicating between
decoupled application components.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Messaging Simple Queue
Service (SQS)
Service Bus
Queues,
Topics, Relays
Supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies
including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging.
Workflow Simple
Workflow
Service (SWF)
Logic Apps Serverless technology for connecting apps, data and devices anywhere—on-
premises or in the cloud for large ecosystems of SaaS and cloud based
connectors.
API
management
API Gateway API
Management
A turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers.
Enterprise
app
integration
None Logic Apps Provides out-of-the box trading partner management, cloud to on-premises,
and line-of-business application integration for SAP, Oracle, SQL Server, and
Websphere MQ.
Backend
process logic
Lambda Web Jobs Technology to provide an easy way to run scripts or programs as background
processes in an application context.
Application
development
None Logic Apps Connect apps, data, and devices anywhere—on-premises or in the cloud—
with our large ecosystem of SaaS and cloud-based connectors that includes
Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google Services, and more.
Elastic Beanstalk Web Apps
(App Service)
Cloud
Services
API Apps
(App Service)
Managed hosting platforms providing easy to use services for deploying and
scaling web applications and services.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
CodeDeploy
CodeCommit
CodePipeline
Visual Studio
Team Services
Developer tools for scripting application deployment.
AWS Developer
Tools
Azure
Developer
Tools
Collection of tools for building, debugging, deploying, diagnosing, and
managing multi-platform, scalable apps and services.
None Power Apps Technology to rapidly build business solutions, connecting to existing services
and data sources such as Excel, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and more using a
visual designer.
App testing None Azure
DevTest Labs
(backend)
Testing technology to build out heterogeneous solutions for testing cross-
platform functionality to your dev/test environment. Integrates to a full
DevOps Continuous Integration/Deployment with Visual Studio Online
service and 3rd parties such as Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, CloudTest Lite, Octopus
Deploy, and others.
App customer
payment
service
Amazon Flexible
Payment Service
and Amazon
Dev Pay
None Cloud service that provides developers a payment service for their cloud based
applications.
Game
development
(cloud-based
tools)
GameLift None AWS managed service for hosting dedicated game servers.
Area AWS service Azure service Description
Lumberyard None Game engine integrated with AWS and Twitch.
DevOps AWS CodeBuild Visual Studio
Team Services
Fully managed build service that supports continuous integration and
deployment.
Backend
process logic
AWS Step
Functions
Azure Logic
Apps
Cloud technology to build distributed applications using out-of-the-box
connectors to reduce integration challenges. Connect apps, data and devices
on-premises or in the cloud.
Programmatic
access
Command Line
Interface
Azure
Command
Line Interface
(CLI)
Azure
PowerShell
Built on top of the native REST API across all cloud services, various
programming language-specific wrappers provide easier ways to create
solutions.
Enterprise integration
Area
AWS
service
Azure
service Description
Enterprise app
integration
none Azure
Logic
Apps
Provides out of the box cloud to on-premises, trading partner management, and
line-of-business application integration for SAP, Oracle, SQL Server, and
Websphere MQ.
Area
AWS
service
Azure
service Description
Enterprise
application
services
none Dynamics
365
Dynamics 365 delivers the full spectrum of CRM through five individual apps—
Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Project Service Automation, and
Marketing —that work seamlessly together.
Amazon
WorkMail
Amazon
WorkDocs
Office 365 Fully integrated Cloud service providing communications, email, document
management in the cloud and available on a wide variety of devices.
Content
management in the
cloud
None SharePoint
Online
Provides a collaborative way for individuals, teams, and organizations to
intelligently discover, share, and collaborate on content from anywhere and on any
device.
Commercial
PAAS-IAAS-
DBaaS framework
None Azure
Stack
A hybrid cloud platform that lets you deliver Azure services from your
organization’s datacenter.
