Compare Services & Features Between Microsoft

Azure vs. Amazon Web Services vs. Google Compute

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The easiest way to compare the big cloud services players is by evaluating
products, services, and features in a direct comparison to determine which
cloud best meets your needs. So we’ve done just that, pitting Azure, AWS,
and Google Cloud against each other in this head-to-head comparison
chart. (For a detailed discussion comparing Azure and AWS, check out this
post.)

Amazon Web
Microsoft Google
Services
Azure Compute
(AWS)

Google
Available Azure AWS Global Compute
Regions Regions Infrastructure Regions and
Zones

Virtual Elastic
Compute Compute
Machines Compute Cloud
Services Engine
(VMs) (EC2)

Cloud
Services
Azure
Websites and
Amazon Elastic Google App
App Hosting Apps
Beanstalk Engine
Azure Batch
Azure
Scheduler
Logic Apps

Google
Serverless Azure
AWS Lambda Cloud
Computing Functions
Functions
ALM & Code Azure Visual AWS None
Editor Studio Online CodeDeploy

Docker Virtual
Container
Container Machine EC2 Container
Engine
Support Extension Service
Container
(how to)
Registry

Azure
Scaling Options Autoscale Auto Scaling Autoscaler
(how to)

Elastic Google
Analytics/Hadoop HDInsight
MapReduce Cloud
Options (Hadoop)
(EMR) Dataproc

Government Azure
AWS GovCloud None
Services Government

Amazon
App/Desktop Azure WorkSpaces
None
Services RemoteApp Amazon
AppStream

Azure
Storage
(Blobs, Amazon Simple Cloud
Object Storage
Tables, Storage (S3) Storage
Queues,
Files)

Azure Blob Amazon Elastic

Persistent
Block Storage Storage (how Block Storage
Disk
to) (EBS)

Hybrid Cloud AWS Storage

StorSimple None
Storage Gateway

Google
Backup Options Azure Backup Amazon Glacier Cloud
Storage
Disaster Azure Site None None
Recovery Recovery
Planning

Content Delivery Amazon

Azure CDN Cloud CDN
Network (CDN ) CloudFront

Amazon
Relational
Cloud SQL
Database Azure SQL Database
Cloud
Options Database Service (RDS)
Spanner
Amazon
Redshift

Cloud
NoSQL Database Azure Amazon Bigtable
Options DocumentDB Dynamo DB Cloud
Datastore

Azure
Managed Amazon Elastic
Caching None
Cache (Redis Cache
Cache)

BigQuery
Data Azure Data AWS Data
Cloud
Orchestration Factory Pipeline
Dataflow

Networking Azure Virtual Cloud Virtual

Amazon VPC
Options Network Network

Azure AWS Direct Cloud

ExpressRoute Connect Interconnect

Azure Traffic Amazon Route

Cloud DNS
Manager 53

Load
Balancing for Elastic Load Cloud Load
Load Balancing
Azure (how Balancing Balancing
to)

Administration & Azure Active AWS Directory Cloud

Security
 Directory Service Identity &
AWS Identity Access
and Access Management
Management (IAM)
(IAM)

Cloud
Identity-
Azure Multi- AWS Multi-
Multi-Factor Aware Proxy
Factor Factor
Authentication (IAP) (Beta)
Authentication Authentication
Security Key
Enforcement

Azure
Amazon Cloud
Monitoring Operational
CloudTrail Console
Insights

Stackdriver
Azure
Amazon Monitoring
Application
CloudWatch Stackdriver
Insights
Logging

Azure Service
Amazon Simple
Bus Cloud
Queueing Queue Service
Azure Event Pub/Sub
(SQS)
Hubs

Azure Amazon Simple

Notifications Notification Notification None
Hubs Service (SNS)

Azure Key AWS Key Cloud Key

Secure
Vault Management Management
Credentials
(Preview) Service Service

Google
Azure Trust AWS Cloud
Compliance
Center CloudHSM Platform
Security

Management Azure Amazon Cloud

Services & Resource CloudFormation Deployment
Options Manager Manager
 Azure API Amazon API Cloud
API Management
Management Gateway Endpoints

Compute
Engine
Management
with Puppet,
AWS Chef, Salt,
Azure
Automation OpsWorks and Ansible
Automation
AWS Config Automated
Image Builds
with Jenkins,
Packer, and
Kubernetes

Amazon
Search Service Azure Search None
CloudSearch

Cloud
Dataflow
Azure Stream Amazon
Analytics Cloud
Analytics Kinesis
Dataprep
(Beta)

Amazon Simple
Email Services None Email Services None
(SES)

Cloud Video
Azure Media Amazon Elastic
Media Services Intelligence
Services Transcoder
API

Azure Cloud
Amazon
Machine Machine Machine
Machine
Learning Learning Learning
Learning
(Preview) Engine

Amazon Simple
Azure BizTalk
Workflow Workflow None
Services
(SWF)