Public Cloud Comparison of key services

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

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

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

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

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