Cheat sheet of the services available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure

Here is our cloud services cheat sheet of the services available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. The list is broken down by category to help you start your cross-cloud analysis.

Complete list can be seen from here: https://cloud.google.com/docs/get-started/aws-azure-gcp-service-comparison

AI and machine learning

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
AI containers	AWS Deep Learning Containers	GPU support on AKS	Deep Learning Containers
AI prediction human review and moderation	Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I)	Azure Content Moderator	N/A
AI machine images	AWS Deep Learning AMIs	Data Science Virtual Machines	Deep Learning VM Image
Chat bot builder	Amazon Lex	Azure Bot Service, Health Bot, QnA Maker	Dialogflow
Data labeling	Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth	Azure Machine Learning data labeling	Vertex Data Labeling
Document extraction, image content analysis	Amazon Textract	Azure Form Recognizer, Ink Recognizer, Computer Vision, Custom Vision	Vision API
Image and video recognition, indexing	Amazon Rekognition	Azure Face, Video Indexer	Video AI
Inference accelerator	Amazon Elastic Inference	GPUs on AKS	Cloud TPU, Edge TPU
Language recognition, sentiment analysis	Amazon Comprehend	Azure Immersive Reader, Language Understanding, Text Analytics	Cloud Natural Language AI, Healthcare Natural Language AI
Language translation	Amazon Translate	Speech Translation, Translator	Cloud Translation, Media Translation (beta)
Machine learning hardware	AWS Inferentia, AWS Trainium (preview*)	FPGA	Cloud TPU
Managed machine learning platform	Amazon SageMaker	Azure Machine Learning	TensorFlow Enterprise, Vertex AI
Notebooks	Amazon EMR Notebooks	Integrations through Visual Studio, Azure and GitHub	Notebooks
Online fraud detection	Amazon Fraud Detector	N/A	reCAPTCHA Enterprise
Prediction review and moderation	Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon SageMaker Clarify	Azure Content Moderator	N/A
Recommendation integration	Amazon Personalize	Personalizer	Recommendations AI
Speech recognition	Amazon Transcribe	Speaker Recognition (preview), Speech to Text	Cloud Speech-to-Text API
Text-to-speech	Amazon Polly	Text to Speech	Cloud Text-to-Speech API
Time-series forecasting	Amazon Forecast	N/A	N/A
Vision/speech modeling packaged devices	AWS DeepLens	Azure Kinect DK	N/A

Analytics

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Big data processing	Amazon EMR	Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight	Dataproc
Business analytics	Amazon QuickSight, Amazon FinSpace	Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Graph Data Connect (preview)	Looker, Google Data Studio
Data lake creation	Amazon HealthLake (preview), AWS Lake Formation	Azure Data Lake Storage	Cloud Storage
Data sharing	AWS Data Exchange, AWS Lake Formation	Azure Data Share	Analytics Hub (preview), Cloud Dataprep (partnership with Trifacta)
Data warehousing	Amazon Redshift	Azure Synapse Analytics	BigQuery
ETL	AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler	Azure Data Factory	Cloud Data Fusion, Dataflow, Dataproc
Hosted Hadoop/Spark	Amazon EMR	Azure HDInsight	Dataproc
Managed search	Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Kendra	Azure Cognitive Search, Bing Search API	Cloud Search
Managed Kafka	Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka	Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka	N/A (available through a partnership with Confluent)
Real-time data streaming	Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams	Azure Stream Analytics	Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Datastream (preview)
Query service, data exploration	Amazon Athena, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (preview)	SQL Server ML Services, Big Data Clusters (Spark), Data Lake Analytics, SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer	BigQuery

Application integration

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
API development and management	Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync	Azure API Apps	API Gateway, Apigee, Cloud Endpoints
Distributed app coordination	Amazon Simple Workflow Service, AWS Step Functions	Logic Apps	Cloud Tasks
Event routing, third-party integration	Amazon AppFlow, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple Notification Service	Event Grid	Pub/Sub
Messaging	Amazon MQ, Amazon Simple Queue Service	Azure Web PubSub (preview),  Queue Storage, Service Bus	Pub/Sub
Service discovery	AWS Cloud Map	N/A	N/A
Service mesh	AWS App Mesh	Open Service Mesh AKS add-on (preview)	Anthos Service Mesh
Workflow orchestration	AWS Data Pipeline, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow	Logic Apps	Cloud Composer, Workflows

Business applications**

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Collaboration tool suite	N/A	Microsoft 365	Google Workspace
Document sharing and storage	Amazon WorkDocs	Microsoft Word	Google Docs, Google Workspace Essentials
Email and calendar	Amazon WorkMail	Outlook	Gmail
Low-code/no-code	Amazon Honeycode (preview)	Microsoft PowerApps, Project Bonsai (preview)	AppSheet
Video calls and chat	Amazon Chime	Microsoft Teams	Google Meet
Voice assistant	Alexa for Business	Cortana	Google Assistant

Compute

	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), Cloud Scheduler
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, Azure FXT Edge Filer	N/A
VM image builder	EC2 Image Builder	Azure VM Image Builder	N/A
Isolated servers	Dedicated Instances	Azure Dedicated Host	Sole-tenant Nodes, Shielded VMs
PaaS	AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS	App Service, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Spring Cloud, Azure Red Hat OpenShift	App Engine
On-premises/edge devices	AWS Outposts, AWS Snow Family	Azure Modular Datacenter, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI, 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

Containers

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Container registry	Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECR Public	Azure Container Registry	Artifact Registry, Container Registry
Managed container service	AWS Copilot, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Serverless containers	AWS App Runner, AWS Fargate	Azure Container Instances (ACI)	Cloud Run

Cost controls

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Long-term commitment discount programs	EC2 Reserved Instances, Savings Plans	Reservations, Azure Hybrid Benefit	Committed use discounts, sustained use discounts
Low-cost, interruptible VMs	EC2 Spot	Azure Spot Virtual Machines	Preemptible Virtual Machines
Optimization tools	Amazon CodeGuru, Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well-Architected Tool	Azure Advisor, Azure Well-Architected Review	Recommender, Network Intelligence Center, Cloud Profiler
Spending tracker and analysis	AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report, Reserved Instance Reporting	Azure Cost Management and Billing	Cost Management

Databases

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Blockchain	Amazon Managed Blockchain, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)	Azure Blockchain Service (preview), Azure Blockchain Development Kit, Azure Blockchain Workbench (preview), Microsoft Azure Confidential Ledger (preview)	N/A
Caching	Amazon ElastiCache (Memcached, Redis)	Azure Cache for Redis, Azure HPC Cache	Cloud Memorystore
NoSQL: Column-family	Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)	Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra (preview)	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

Developer tools

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
App configuration parameter storage	AWS AppConfig	App Configuration	Cloud Storage
Artifact management	AWS CodeArtifact	Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packages	Artifact Registry (preview)
Code debugging	AWS X-Ray	Visual Studio Code	Cloud Debugger, Firebase Crashlytics
CI/CD	AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeStar	Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines	Cloud Build, Tekton
Development kits	AWS Cloud Development Kit, Amazon Corretto	Azure SDKs	Cloud SDK
IDEs and other tools for interacting with cloud resources	AWS Cloud9, AWS CLI, AWS CloudShell, Amazon EMR Studio	Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Cloud Shell, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code	Cloud Code, Tools for Eclipse, Tools for PowerShell
Lab environment	N/A	Azure Lab Services, Azure DevTest Labs	N/A
Mobile and Web app development	AWS Amplify	App Service, Mobile Apps, Xamarin with Azure, Web Apps, Static Web Apps	Google Firebase
Private repository	AWS CodeCommit, AWS Serverless Application Repository	Azure Repos	Cloud Source Repositories
Testing	AWS Device Farm, AWS Fault Injection Simulator	Visual Studio App Center, Azure Test Plans, Azure Internet Analyzer (preview)	Google Firebase Test Lab

IoT

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Cloud-device connections, data collection and management	AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Defender, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Events, AWS IoT SiteWise	Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Defender for IoT, Azure Sphere	Cloud IoT Core
IoT edge compute	AWS Greengrass	Azure IoT Edge, Azure Percept (preview)	Edge TPU
Microcontroller OS	FreeRTOS	Azure RTOS	N/A
Virtual modeling	AWS IoT Things Graph	Azure Digital Twins	N/A

Management and governance

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Automation	AWS CloudFormation, AWS Proton, AWS OpsWorks	Azure Resource Manager, Azure Automation	Cloud Deployment Manager, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, Cloud Scheduler
Anomaly detection	CloudWatch Anomaly Detection	Anomaly Detector	Anomaly Detection
Application portfolio and data governance	AWS Service Catalog	Azure Managed Applications, Azure Blueprints (preview), Azure Purview (preview)	Dataplex, Private Catalog, Service Directory
Automated Windows Server management	N/A	Azure Automanage (preview)	N/A
Configuration management	AWS Config	Azure App Configuration	Cloud Asset Inventory
Health dashboard	Personal Health Dashboard	Resource Health, Azure Service Health	Cloud Monitoring
Hybrid and multi-cloud management	Amazon EKS Anywhere (preview), Amazon ECS Anywhere	Azure Arc	Google Anthos, Network Connectivity Center (preview)
License management	AWS License Manager	N/A	N/A
Monitoring	Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager, Amazon Lookout for Metrics, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (preview)	Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Log Analytics, Azure Metrics Advisor (preview)	Operations, Cloud Operations for GKE (formerly Stackdriver), Network Intelligence Center
Multi-account management	AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations	Azure Management Groups, Azure Lighthouse	N/A
Policy management	AWS Organizations	Azure Policy	Organization Policy Service
Telemetry collection and response	AWS Systems Manager, AWS Distro for Open Telemetry (preview)	Azure Monitor	Network Telemetry
Web-based user interface	AWS Management Console	Azure Portal	Cloud Console

Migration

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Database migration	AWS Database Migration Service	Azure Database Migration Service	Database Migration Service (preview)
Data transfer appliance	Snow Family	Data Box	Transfer Appliance
Disaster recovery	CloudEndure Disaster Recovery	Azure Site Recovery	N/A
Online data transfer	AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family	Azure File Sync	BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Transfer
On-premises application analysis	AWS Application Discovery Service, Migration Evaluator	Azure Migrate, Movere, Azure Resource Mover	N/A
On-premises and cloud storage integration	Storage Gateway	StorSimple	N/A (offered by partner Cloudian)
Migration tracker	AWS Migration Hub	Azure Migrate	N/A
Server migration	AWS App2Container, AWS Server Migration Service, CloudEndure Migration	Azure Migrate	Migrate for Anthos, Migrate for Compute Engine, VM migration

Miscellaneous

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Customer engagement	Amazon Connect, Contact Lens for Amazon Connect	Azure Communication Services, Azure SignalR Service	Contact Center AI
End user communications	Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Simple Email Service	Azure Notification Hubs	Firebase Cloud Messaging
Gaming	Amazon GameLift, Amazon Lumberyard	Game Stack	Game Servers
Geolocation APIs and services	Amazon Maps API, Amazon Location Service	Azure Maps	Google Maps Platform
Genomics	N/A	Microsoft Genomics	Cloud Life Sciences (preview)
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources	FHIR Works on AWS	Azure API for FHIR	Apigee HealthAPIx, Cloud Healthcare API
Industrial and other workplace monitoring tools	Amazon Lookout for Vision, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, Amazon Panorama (preview), Amazon Monitron	Azure IoT	Vision AI, Visual Inspection AI
Media services	Amazon Elastic Transcoder, AWS Elemental suite, Amazon Interactive Video Service, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams	Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Azure Video Analyzer (preview), Media Services	OpenCue, Transcoder API (preview)
Mobile access to internal web apps	Amazon WorkLink	N/A	Identity-Aware Proxy
Robotics application development	AWS RoboMaker	N/A	Cloud Robotics Core
Satellite ground stations	AWS Ground Station	Azure Orbital (preview)	N/A
Virtual desktop	Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0	Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure	N/A
Virtual reality, mixed reality app development	Amazon Sumerian	Azure Digital Twins, Kinect DK, Object Anchors (preview), Remote Rendering (preview), Spatial Anchors	Google VR

Networking

	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, Azure Route Server (preview)	Cloud NAT
Satellite ground station	AWS Ground Station	Azure Orbital (preview)	N/A
Service discovery	Amazon ECS, AWS Cloud Map	N/A	GKE
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, VPC Service Controls

Security

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Audit and compliance reports and controls	AWS Artifact, AWS Audit Manager	Service Trust Portal	Assured Workloads
Centralized security management	AWS Security Hub	Security Center	Security Command Center
Certificate management	AWS Certificate Manager	App Service	Certificate Authority Service
Confidential computing	AWS Nitro Enclaves	Azure Confidential Computing	Confidential Computing
Container deploy-time security control	N/A	N/A	Binary Authorization
Data discovery and classification	Amazon Macie	Data Catalog, Azure Information Protection	Data Catalog, Cloud Data Loss Prevention
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection	AWS Shield	Azure DDoS Protection	Google Cloud Armor
End-user identity management	Amazon Cognito	Azure Active Directory B2C	Firebase Authentication
Firewall management	AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Network Firewall, AWS WAF	Azure Firewall Manager, Web Application Firewall	Cloud Armor, Cloud firewalls
Identity and access management	AWS Identity and Access Management	Azure Active Directory, role-based access control (Azure RBAC), Azure Active Directory External Identities	BeyondCorp Enterprise, Identity and Access Management, Identity Platform, Identity-Aware Proxy
Key management	AWS Key Management Service, AWS CloudHSM	Key Vault, Azure Dedicated HSM	Cloud Key Management
Multifactor authentication	AWS Multi-Factor Authentication	Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication	Google Authenticator, Titan Security Key
Microsoft Active Directory compatible directory service	AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory	Azure Active Directory Domain Service	Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
Resource access management	AWS Resource Access Manager	Azure Resource Manager	Resource Manager
Security data analysis	Amazon Detective	Security Center	Chronicle, Risk Protection Program (preview)
Secrets management	AWS Secrets Manager	Azure Key Vault	Secret Manager
Single sign-on	AWS Single Sign-On	Azure Active Directory single single-on	Cloud Identity
Signoff for cloud provider data access requests	N/A	Customer Lockbox	Access Transparency
Threat Detection	Amazon GuardDuty	Microsoft Azure Attestation, Azure Defender, Azure Sentinel	Chronicle, Phishing Protection, Web Risk, Event Threat Detection (preview)
Vulnerability scanning	Amazon Inspector	Security Center	Web Security Scanner

Storage

	AWS	Azure	Google Cloud
Archival storage	S3 Glacier, S3 Glacier Deep Archive	Archive Storage	Archive Storage
Backup	AWS Backup	Azure Backup	N/A
Block storage	Amazon Block Store (EBS)	Azure Disk Storage	Persistent Disk, Local SSD
File storage	Amazon Elastic File Service (EFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre	Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files, Azure FXT Edge Filer	Filestore
Object storage	Amazon S3	Azure Blob Storage	Cloud Storage, Cloud Storage for Firebase

*AWS, Google and Microsoft use different terminology to describe services that are in preview, beta or alpha. For the purposes of this piece, any service that is not generally available is listed as being in preview.

**Several Google and Microsoft services in this section are not explicitly available through Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, respectively. They are part of each vendor’s broader cloud portfolio.