Comparison of key Cloud Services amongst the top 3 leading Public Cloud ‘hyperscalers’.
| AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autoscaling | AWS EC2 Auto Scaling | Azure Autoscale, Azure virtual machine scale sets | Managed instance groups (MIGs) |
| Batch scheduling, executing and processing | AWS Batch | Azure Batch | Batch on GKE (preview) |
| Functions as a service | AWS Lambda | Azure Functions | Cloud Functions |
| 5G-based infrastructure | AWS Wavelength | Azure Edge Zones | Global Mobile Edge Cloud (GMEC) |
| High performance computing cluster management | AWS ParallelCluster | Azure CycleCloud | N/A |
| Isolated servers | Dedicated Instances | Azure Dedicated Host | Sole-tenant Nodes, Shielded VMs |
| PaaS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | App Service, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Spring Cloud, Azure Red Hat OpenShift | App Engine |
| On-premises/edge devices | AWS Outposts, AWS Snow Family | Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI (preview), Azure Stack Edge | N/A |
| Quantum computing | Amazon Braket | Azure Quantum (preview) | N/A |
| Virtual machines | Amazon EC2 | Virtual Machines | Compute Engine |
| Virtual private server | Amazon Lightsail | N/A | N/A |
| VMware integration | VMware Cloud on AWS | Azure VMware Solution | VMware Engine |
| AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Container registry | Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Azure Container Registry | Artifact Registry (preview), Container Registry |
| Managed container service | Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
| Serverless container environment | AWS Fargate | Azure Container Instances (ACI) | Cloud Run |
| AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blockchain | Amazon Managed Blockchain, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) | Azure Blockchain Service (preview), Azure Blockchain Tokens (preview), Azure Blockchain Workbench (preview) | N/A |
| In-memory caching | Amazon ElastiCache (Memcached, Redis) | Azure Cache for Redis | Cloud Memorystore |
| NoSQL: Column-family | Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) | Azure Cosmos DB | Cloud Bigtable |
| NoSQL: Document | Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), Amazon DynamoDB | Azure Cosmos DB | Cloud Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database |
| NoSQL: Graph | Amazon Neptune | Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API | N/A |
| NoSQL: Key-value | Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Keyspaces | Azure Cosmos DB, Table storage | Cloud Bigtable, Firestore |
| Relational database management system | Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB), Amazon RDS on VMware | Azure Database (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), Azure SQL (Database, Edge, Managed Instance) | Cloud SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), Cloud Spanner |
| Time-series database | Amazon Timestream | Azure Time Series Insights | Cloud Bigtable |
| AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build, deploy and manage APIs | Amazon API Gateway | Azure API Apps, API Management | Apigee API Management Platform |
| Content delivery network | Amazon CloudFront | Content Delivery Network (CDN) | Cloud CDN |
| Dedicated fiber connection between VPCs and private network | AWS Direct Connect | Azure ExpressRoute | Cloud Interconnect |
| Domain name system | Amazon Route 53 | Azure DNS | Cloud DNS |
| Load balancing | Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager | Cloud Load Balancing |
| Network accelerator | AWS Global Accelerator | Accelerated Networking | Premium Network Service Tier |
| Network area translation | NAT Gateway | Virtual Network NAT | Cloud NAT |
| Satellite ground station | AWS Ground Station | Azure Orbital (preview) | N/A |
| Service discovery | Amazon ECS, AWS Cloud Map | N/A | Service Discovery (preview) |
| Traffic control plane | AWS App Mesh | Azure Front Door, Azure Service Fabric | Traffic Director |
| Virtual WAN | N/A | Virtual WAN | N/A |
| VPC | Amazon VPC | Azure Virtual Network | Virtual Private Cloud |
| VPC/VM secure connector | AWS Transit Gateway, AWS VPN | Azure Bastion, Azure Private Link, Azure VPN gateway | Cloud VPN, Direct Peering |
| AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | Amazon S3 | Blob storage | Cloud Storage, Cloud Storage for Firebase |
| Archival storage | S3 Glacier, S3 Glacier Deep Archive | Archive Storage | Archive Storage |
| File storage | Amazon Elastic File Service (EFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre | File Storage, Azure NetApp Files | Filestore |
| Block storage | Amazon Block Store (EBS) | Disk Storage | Persistent Disk, Local SSD |
| Backup | AWS Backup | Azure Backup | N/A |
