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A cloud services cheat sheet for AWS, NETWORKING

Azure, and Google Cloud SECURITY

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AI AND MACHINE A cloud services cloud directories—a quick reference sheet for what each
vendor calls the same service.
cheat sheet for
LEARNING

However, you can also use this as a starting point. You'll

ANALYTICS
need to do your homework to get a more nuanced under-
APPLICATION
INTEGRATION
AWS, Azure and standing of what distinguishes the offerings from one an-
other. Follow some of the links throughout this piece and
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APPLICATIONS
Google Cloud take that next step in dissecting these offerings.
That's because not all services are equal—each has its
COMPUTE
—TREVOR JONES, SITE EDITOR own set of features and capabilities, and the functionality
might vary widely across platforms. And just because a
CONTAINERS provider doesn't have a designated service in one of these
COST CONTROLS
categories, that doesn't mean it's impossible to achieve the
same objective. For example, Google Cloud doesn't offer an
DATABASES AWS, MICROSOFT AND GOOGLE each offer well over 100 cloud explicit disaster recovery service, but it's certainly capable
DEVELOPER TOOLS
services. It's hard enough keeping tabs on what one cloud of supporting DR.
offers, so good luck trying to get a handle on the products Here is our cloud services cheat sheet of the services
IoT from the three major providers. available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. The list is bro-
MANAGEMENT
Even trying to compare what's available in each cloud ken down by category to help you start your cross-cloud
AND GOVERNANCE can quickly get convoluted, since naming conventions vary analysis. n
by vendor and service. For example, you can be forgiven
MIGRATION
for not knowing AWS Fargate, Microsoft Azure Container
MISCELLANEOUS Instances and Google Cloud Run all essentially serve the Editor's note: Cloud services are constantly evolving. All infor-
same purpose. mation in this cheat sheet is up to date as of publication. We will
NETWORKING
So, if you ever feel at a loss for what's what, hopefully this periodically update the list to reflect the ongoing changes across
SECURITY cloud services cheat sheet will help. Consider it a guide for all three platforms.
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EDITOR'S NOTE AI containers AWS Deep Learning Containers GPU support on AKS Deep Learning Containers

AI AND MACHINE AI machine images AWS Deep Learning AMIs Data Science Virtual Machines Deep Learning VM Image
LEARNING

Chat bots builder Amazon Lex Azure Bot Service, QnA Maker Dialogflow
ANALYTICS
Data labeling Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Azure Machine Learning data labeling Cloud Data Labeling
APPLICATION
INTEGRATION Document extraction, Amazon Textract Azure Form Recognizer, Ink Vision API
image content analysis Recognizer, Computer Vision,
BUSINESS Custom Vision
APPLICATIONS
Image and video Amazon Rekognition Azure Face, Video Indexer Video AI
COMPUTE recognition, indexing

CONTAINERS Inference accelerator Amazon Elastic Inference GPUs on AKS Cloud TPU, Edge TPU

COST CONTROLS
Language recognition, Amazon Comprehend Language Understanding, Text Natural Language
sentiment analysis Analytics

DATABASES
Language translation Amazon Translate Speech Translation, Translator Translation

DEVELOPER TOOLS
Machine learning AWS Inferentia, AWS Trainium FPGA Cloud TPU
hardware (preview*)
IoT

Managed machine Amazon SageMaker Azure Machine Learning Cloud AutoML

MANAGEMENT learning platform
AND GOVERNANCE

Online fraud detection Amazon Fraud Detector N/A reCAPTCHA Enterprise

MIGRATION

Prediction review Amazon Augmented AI, Amazon Azure Content Moderator N/A
MISCELLANEOUS and moderation SageMaker Clarify

NETWORKING Recommendation Amazon Personalize Personalizer Recommendations AI

integration (preview)
SECURITY
Speech recognition Amazon Transcribe Speaker Recognition, Speech to Text Cloud Speech-to-Text API
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EDITOR'S NOTE Text-to-speech Amazon Polly Text to Speech Cloud Text-to-Speech API

AI AND MACHINE Time-series forecasting Amazon Forecast N/A N/A

LEARNING

Vision/speech modeling AWS DeepLens Azure Kinect DK N/A

ANALYTICS packaged devices

APPLICATION *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.
INTEGRATION

BUSINESS Analytics
APPLICATIONS
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COMPUTE
Big data processing Amazon EMR Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight Dataproc

CONTAINERS
Business analytics Amazon QuickSight Power BI Embedded Looker,
Google Data Studio
COST CONTROLS

Data lake creation Amazon HealthLake (preview), Azure Data Lake Storage Cloud Storage
DATABASES AWS Lake Formation

DEVELOPER TOOLS Data sharing AWS Data Exchange, AWS Lake Azure Data Share Cloud Dataprep
Formation (partnership with Trifacta)
IoT
Data warehousing Amazon Redshift Azure Synapse Analytics BigQuery
MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE ETL AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis Data Azure Data Factory Cloud Data Fusion,
Firehose, Amazon SageMaker Data Dataflow, Dataproc
MIGRATION
Wrangler

Hosted Hadoop/Spark Amazon EMR Azure HDInsight Dataproc

MISCELLANEOUS

Managed search Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon Azure Cognitive Search, Bing Search Cloud Search
NETWORKING
Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Kendra services

SECURITY
Managed Kafka Amazon Managed Streaming Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka N/A (available through a
for Apache Kafka partnership with Confluent)
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Analytics
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EDITOR'S NOTE Real-time data streaming Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics Dataflow, Pub/Sub
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
AI AND MACHINE
LEARNING Query service, data Amazon Athena, Amazon SQL Server ML Services, Big Data BigQuery
exploration Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Clusters (Spark), Data Lake Analytics,
ANALYTICS Managed Service SQL Server Analysis Services,
for Grafana (preview) Azure Data Explorer
APPLICATION
INTEGRATION

BUSINESS
Application integration
APPLICATIONS
AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD

COMPUTE API development and Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync Azure API Apps API Gateway (preview),
management Apigee, Cloud Endpoints
CONTAINERS
Distributed app Amazon Simple Workflow Service, Logic Apps Cloud Tasks
COST CONTROLS
coordination AWS Step Functions

Event routing, third-party Amazon AppFlow, Amazon Event Grid Pub/Sub

DATABASES
integration EventBridge, Amazon Simple
Notification Service
DEVELOPER TOOLS

Messaging Amazon MQ, Amazon Simple Queue Queue Storage, Service Bus Pub/Sub
IoT
Service

MANAGEMENT Service discovery AWS Cloud Map N/A N/A

AND GOVERNANCE

Service mesh AWS App Mesh Azure Service Fabric Mesh (preview) Anthos Service Mesh
MIGRATION

Workflow orchestration AWS Data Pipeline Logic Apps Cloud Composer

MISCELLANEOUS

NETWORKING

SECURITY

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EDITOR'S NOTE Collaboration tool suite N/A Microsoft 365 Google Workspace

AI AND MACHINE Document sharing and Amazon WorkDocs Microsoft Word Google Docs
LEARNING storage

ANALYTICS Email and calendar Amazon WorkMail Outlook Gmail

APPLICATION Low-code/no-code Amazon Honeycode (preview) Microsoft PowerApps, Project Bonsai AppSheet
INTEGRATION (preview)

BUSINESS Video calls and chat Amazon Chime Microsoft Teams Google Meet
APPLICATIONS
Voice assistant Alexa for Business Cortana Google Assistant
COMPUTE
**SEVERAL GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT SERVICES IN THIS SECTION ARE NOT EXPLICITLY AVAILABLE THROUGH GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM AND MICROSOFT AZURE, RESPECTIVELY.
THEY ARE PART OF EACH VENDOR'S BROADER CLOUD PORTFOLIO.
CONTAINERS

COST CONTROLS Compute

AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD
DATABASES

Autoscaling AWS EC2 Auto Scaling Azure Autoscale, Azure virtual Managed instance groups
DEVELOPER TOOLS machine scale sets (MIGs)

IoT Batch scheduling, AWS Batch Azure Batch Batch on GKE (preview)
executing and processing
MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE Functions as a service AWS Lambda Azure Functions Cloud Functions

MIGRATION 5G-based infrastructure AWS Wavelength Azure Edge Zones Global Mobile Edge Cloud
(GMEC)
MISCELLANEOUS
High performance AWS ParallelCluster Azure CycleCloud N/A
computing cluster
NETWORKING
management

SECURITY
Isolated servers Dedicated Instances Azure Dedicated Host Sole-tenant Nodes,
Shielded VMs
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Compute
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EDITOR'S NOTE PaaS AWS Elastic Beanstalk App Service, Azure Cloud Services, App Engine
Azure Spring Cloud, Azure Red Hat
AI AND MACHINE OpenShift
LEARNING
On-premises/edge devices AWS Outposts, AWS Snow Family Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI N/A
ANALYTICS (preview), Azure Stack Edge

APPLICATION Quantum computing Amazon Braket Azure Quantum (preview) N/A

INTEGRATION
Virtual machines Amazon EC2 Virtual Machines Compute Engine
BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS Virtual private server Amazon Lightsail N/A N/A

COMPUTE VMware integration VMware Cloud on AWS Azure VMware Solution VMware Engine

CONTAINERS

COST CONTROLS
Containers
AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD
DATABASES
Container registry Amazon Elastic Container Registry Azure Container Registry Artifact Registry (preview),
DEVELOPER TOOLS
(ECR), ECR Public Container Registry

Managed container Amazon Elastic Container Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Google Kubernetes Engine
IoT
service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (GKE)
Service (EKS)
MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE
Serverless container AWS Fargate Azure Container Instances (ACI) Cloud Run
environment
MIGRATION

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NETWORKING

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EDITOR'S NOTE Long-term commitment EC2 Reserved Instances, Reservations, Azure Hybrid Benefit Committed use discounts,
discount programs Savings Plans sustained use discounts
AI AND MACHINE
LEARNING Low-cost, interruptible EC2 Spot Azure Spot Virtual Machines Preemptible Virtual
VMs Machines
ANALYTICS
Optimization tools Amazon CodeGuru, Amazon DevOps Azure Advisor, Azure Well-Architected Recommender, Network
APPLICATION Guru (preview), AWS Compute Review Intelligence Center,
INTEGRATION Optimizer, AWS Trusted Advisor, Cloud Profiler
AWS Well-Architected Tool
BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS Spending tracker and AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Anomaly Azure Cost Management and Billing Cost Management
analysis Detection, AWS Cost Explorer,
COMPUTE
AWS Cost and Usage Report

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COST CONTROLS Databases

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DATABASES
Blockchain Amazon Managed Blockchain, Azure Blockchain Service (preview), N/A
DEVELOPER TOOLS Amazon Quantum Ledger Database Azure Blockchain Tokens (preview),
(QLDB) Azure Blockchain Workbench
(preview)
IoT

In-memory caching Amazon ElastiCache (Memcached, Azure Cache for Redis Cloud Memorystore
MANAGEMENT
Redis)
AND GOVERNANCE

NoSQL: Column-family Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Azure Cosmos DB Cloud Bigtable
MIGRATION
Cassandra)

MISCELLANEOUS
NoSQL: Document Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Azure Cosmos DB Cloud Firestore, Firebase
compatibility), Amazon DynamoDB Realtime Database
NETWORKING

NoSQL: Graph Amazon Neptune Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API N/A

SECURITY
NoSQL: Key-value Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Table storage Cloud Bigtable, Firestore
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Databases
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EDITOR'S NOTE Relational database Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS (MySQL, Azure Database (MySQL, MariaDB, Cloud SQL (MySQL,
management system PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL), Azure SQL (Database, PostgreSQL, SQL Server),
AI AND MACHINE MariaDB), Amazon RDS on VMware Edge, Managed Instance) Cloud Spanner
LEARNING
Time-series database Amazon Timestream Azure Time Series Insights Cloud Bigtable
ANALYTICS

APPLICATION
INTEGRATION Developer tools
BUSINESS AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD
APPLICATIONS
App configuration AWS AppConfig App Configuration Cloud Storage
parameter storage
COMPUTE

Artifact management AWS CodeArtifact Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packages Artifact Registry (preview)
CONTAINERS

Code debugging AWS X-Ray Visual Studio Code Cloud Debugger, Firebase
COST CONTROLS Crashlytics

DATABASES CI/CD AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines Cloud Build, Tekton
AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeStar
DEVELOPER TOOLS
Development kits AWS Cloud Development Kit, Amazon Azure SDKs Cloud SDK
IoT Corretto

MANAGEMENT IDEs and other tools AWS Cloud9, AWS CLI, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Cloud Code, Tools for
AND GOVERNANCE for interacting with AWS CloudShell, Amazon EMR Studio Cloud Shell, Visual Studio, Visual zEclipse, Tools for
cloud resources Studio Code, Visual Studio Codespaces PowerShell

MIGRATION
Lab environment N/A Azure Lab Services N/A

MISCELLANEOUS
Mobile and Web app AWS Amplify App Service, Mobile Apps, Xamarin Google Firebase
development with Azure, Web Apps, Static Web
NETWORKING
Apps (preview)

SECURITY
Mobile and web AWS Device Farm Visual Studio App Center Test, Azure Google Firebase Test Lab
app testing Test Plans
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Private Git repository AWS CodeCommit Azure Repos Cloud Source Repositories

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EDITOR'S NOTE Cloud-device connections, AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Hub, Cloud IoT Core
data collection and AWS IoT Device Defender, AWS IoT Azure Defender for IoT, Azure Sphere
AI AND MACHINE management Device Management, AWS IoT Events,
LEARNING AWS IoT SiteWise

ANALYTICS IoT edge compute AWS Greengrass Azure IoT Edge Edge TPU

APPLICATION Microcontroller OS FreeRTOS Azure RTOS N/A

INTEGRATION
Virtual modeling AWS IoT Things Graph Azure Digital Twins (preview) N/A
BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS

COMPUTE Management and governance

CONTAINERS AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD

Automation AWS CloudFormation, AWS Proton Azure Resource Manager, Azure Cloud Deployment
COST CONTROLS (preview), AWS OpsWorks Automation Manager, Cloud Scheduler

DATABASES Anomaly detection CloudWatch Anomaly Detection Anomaly Detector Anomaly Detection

DEVELOPER TOOLS Application portfolio AWS Service Catalog Azure Managed Applications, Azure Private Catalog
governance Blueprints (preview)
IoT
Automated Windows Server N/A Azure Automanage (preview) N/A
MANAGEMENT management
AND GOVERNANCE
Configuration management AWS Config Azure App Configuration Cloud Asset Inventory
MIGRATION
Health dashboard Personal Health Dashboard Resource Health, Azure Service Health Cloud Monitoring
MISCELLANEOUS
Hybrid and multi-cloud Amazon EKS Anywhere (preview), Azure Arc Google Anthos
management Amazon ECS Anywhere (preview)
NETWORKING

License management AWS License Manager N/A N/A

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Management and governance

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EDITOR'S NOTE Monitoring Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Operations, Cloud
CloudWatch Logs, AWS Transit Log Analytics Operations for GKE
AI AND MACHINE Gateway Network Manager, Amazon (formerly Stackdriver),
LEARNING Lookout for Metrics (preview), Network Intelligence
Amazon Managed Service for Center
ANALYTICS Prometheus (preview)

APPLICATION Multi-account AWS Control Tower, Azure Management Groups, N/A

INTEGRATION management AWS Organizations Azure Lighthouse

BUSINESS Policy management AWS Organizations Azure Policy Organization Policy Service
APPLICATIONS
Telemetry collection AWS Systems Manager Azure Monitor Service Monitoring
COMPUTE
and response (preview)

Web-based user AWS Management Console Azure Portal Cloud Console

CONTAINERS
interface

COST CONTROLS

DATABASES
Migration
DEVELOPER TOOLS AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD

Database migration AWS Database Migration Service Azure Database Migration Service Database Migration Service
IoT
(preview)

MANAGEMENT
Data transfer appliance Snow Family Data Box Transfer Appliance
AND GOVERNANCE

Disaster recovery CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Azure Site Recovery N/A

MIGRATION

Online data transfer AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family Azure File Sync BigQuery Data Transfer
MISCELLANEOUS Service, Cloud Data
Transfer
NETWORKING
On-premises application AWS Application Discovery Service, Azure Migrate, Movere, Azure N/A
SECURITY analysis Migration Evaluator Resource Mover (preview)

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Migration
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On-premises and cloud Storage Gateway StorSimple N/A (offered by partner
storage integration Cloudian)
AI AND MACHINE
LEARNING Migration tracker AWS Migration Hub Azure Migrate N/A

ANALYTICS Server migration AWS App2Container, AWS Server Azure Migrate Migrate for Anthos, Migrate
Migration Service, CloudEndure for Compute Engine,
APPLICATION Migration VM migration
INTEGRATION

BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS Miscellaneous
COMPUTE AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD

Customer engagement Amazon Connect, Contact Lens for Azure Communication Services Contact Center AI
CONTAINERS Amazon Connect (preview)

COST CONTROLS End user communications Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Simple Azure Notification Hubs Firebase Cloud Messaging
Email Service
DATABASES
Gaming Amazon GameLift, Amazon Game Stack Game Servers
DEVELOPER TOOLS Lumberyard

IoT Geolocation APIs and Amazon Maps API, Amazon Location Azure Maps Google Maps Platform
services Service (preview)
MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE Genomics N/A Microsoft Genomics Cloud Life Sciences
(preview)
MIGRATION
Industrial and other Amazon Lookout for Vision, Azure IoT Vision AI
workplace monitoring tools Amazon Lookout for Equipment,
MISCELLANEOUS
Amazon Panorama, Amazon Monitron

NETWORKING
Media services Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Azure Media Player, Content OpenCue
AWS Elemental suite, Amazon Protection, Encoding, Live and
SECURITY Interactive Video Service, Amazon On-Demand Streaming, Live Video
Kinesis Video Streams Analytics (preview), Media Services
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Miscellaneous
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EDITOR'S NOTE Mobile access to internal Amazon WorkLink N/A Identity-Aware Proxy
web apps
AI AND MACHINE
LEARNING Robotics application AWS RoboMaker N/A Cloud Robotics Core
development
ANALYTICS
Satellite ground stations AWS Ground Station Azure Orbital (preview) N/A
APPLICATION
INTEGRATION Virtual desktop Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Windows Virtual Desktop N/A
AppStream 2.0
BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS Virtual reality, mixed reality Amazon Sumerian Azure Digital Twins (preview), Kinect Google VR
app development DK, Remote Rendering (preview),
COMPUTE Spatial Anchors

CONTAINERS

COST CONTROLS Networking

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DATABASES
Build, deploy and manage Amazon API Gateway Azure API Apps, API Management Apigee API Management
DEVELOPER TOOLS APIs Platform

IoT Content delivery network Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) Cloud CDN

MANAGEMENT Dedicated fiber connection AWS Direct Connect Azure ExpressRoute Cloud Interconnect
AND GOVERNANCE between VPCs and private
network

MIGRATION
Domain name system Amazon Route 53 Azure DNS Cloud DNS

MISCELLANEOUS
Load balancing Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Cloud Load Balancing
Traffic Manager
NETWORKING

Network accelerator AWS Global Accelerator Accelerated Networking Premium Network Service
SECURITY
Tier

STORAGE Network area translation NAT Gateway Virtual Network NAT Cloud NAT

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Networking
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EDITOR'S NOTE Satellite ground station AWS Ground Station Azure Orbital (preview) N/A

AI AND MACHINE Service discovery Amazon ECS, AWS Cloud Map N/A Service Discovery (preview)
LEARNING

Traffic control plane AWS App Mesh Azure Front Door, Azure Service Fabric Traffic Director
ANALYTICS
Virtual WAN N/A Virtual WAN N/A
APPLICATION
INTEGRATION VPC Amazon VPC Azure Virtual Network Virtual Private Cloud

BUSINESS VPC/VM secure connector AWS Transit Gateway, AWS VPN Azure Bastion, Azure Private Link, Cloud VPN, Direct Peering
APPLICATIONS Azure VPN gateway

COMPUTE

CONTAINERS Security
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COST CONTROLS
Audit and compliance AWS Artifact, AWS Audit Manager Service Trust Portal N/A
DATABASES reports

DEVELOPER TOOLS Centralized security AWS Security Hub Security Center Security Command Center
management
IoT
Certificate management AWS Certificate Manager App Service Certificates Certificate Authority
Service (preview)
MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE
Confidential computing AWS Nitro Enclaves Azure Confidential Computing Confidential Computing
(preview)
MIGRATION

Container deploy-time N/A N/A Binary Authorization

MISCELLANEOUS
security control

NETWORKING Data discovery and Amazon Macie Data Discovery & Classification Data Catalog,
classification (feature of Azure SQL Database, Cloud Data Loss Prevention
SECURITY Azure SQL Managed Instance
and Azure Synapse Analytics)
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EDITOR'S NOTE Distributed denial-of- AWS Shield Azure DDoS Protection Google Cloud Armor
service (DDoS) protection
AI AND MACHINE
LEARNING End-user identity Amazon Cognito Azure Active Directory B2C Firebase Authentication
management
ANALYTICS
Firewall management AWS Firewall Manager, AWS WAF Azure Firewall, Web Application Cloud Armor, Cloud
APPLICATION Firewall firewalls
INTEGRATION
Identity and access AWS Identity and Access Azure Active Directory, role-based Identity and Access
BUSINESS management Management access control (Azure RBAC) Management, Identity
APPLICATIONS Platform, Identity-Aware
Proxy
COMPUTE
Key management AWS Key Management Service, Key Vault, Azure Dedicated HSM Cloud Key Management
AWS CloudHSM
CONTAINERS

Multifactor AWS Multi-Factor Authentication Azure MFA Google Authenticator,

COST CONTROLS
authentication Titan Security Key

DATABASES
Microsoft Active Directory AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Azure Active Directory Domain Managed Service for
compatible directory Active Directory Service Microsoft Active
DEVELOPER TOOLS service Directory

IoT Resource access AWS Resource Access Manager Azure Resource Manager Resource Manager
management
MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE Security data analysis Amazon Detective Security Center Chronicle

MIGRATION Secrets management AWS Secrets Manager Azure Key Vault Secret Manager

MISCELLANEOUS Single sign-on AWS Single Sign-On Azure Active Directory single Cloud Identity
single-on
NETWORKING
Signoff for cloud provider N/A Customer Lockbox Access Transparency
SECURITY data access requests

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EDITOR'S NOTE Threat Detection Amazon GuardDuty Advanced Threat Protection, Chronicle, Phishing
Azure Defender Protection, Web Risk,
AI AND MACHINE Event Threat Detection
LEARNING (preview)

ANALYTICS Vulnerability scanning Amazon Inspector Security Center Web Security Scanner

APPLICATION
INTEGRATION

Storage
BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS AWS AZURE GOOGLE CLOUD

Archival storage S3 Glacier, S3 Glacier Deep Archive Archive Storage Archive Storage
COMPUTE

Backup AWS Backup Azure Backup N/A

CONTAINERS

Block storage Amazon Block Store (EBS) Disk Storage Persistent Disk, Local SSD
COST CONTROLS

File storage Amazon Elastic File Service (EFS), File Storage, Azure NetApp Files Filestore
DATABASES Amazon FSx for Windows File Server,
Amazon FSx for Lustre
DEVELOPER TOOLS
Object storage Amazon S3 Blob storage Cloud Storage, Cloud
IoT Storage for Firebase

MANAGEMENT
AND GOVERNANCE

MIGRATION

MISCELLANEOUS

NETWORKING

SECURITY

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