Introduction
The 3 major cloud platform platform providers on 2025 are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). They basically offer the same services, but they have different names. The following tables have the goal of putting some order on those naming patterns.
Cloud Computing
| Service |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
| Computing |
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) |
Virtual Machines |
Compute Engine |
| AutoScaling |
AWS EC2 Autoscaling |
Azure Autoscale |
Compute Engine Autoscaler |
| VMS |
VMware Cloud on AWS |
Azure VMware Solution |
VMware Engine |
| Dedicated hosts |
Amazon EC2 dedicated host |
Azure Dedicated Host |
Sole-tenant nodes |
| App deployment |
Elastic Beanstalk |
Azure App Service |
App Engine |
Storage Services
| Service |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
| Block storage |
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) |
Disk Storage |
Persistent Disk |
| Cloud Storage |
Amazon S3 |
Azure Blob Storage |
Cloud Storage |
| File storage |
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) |
Azure Files |
File Store |
| Infrequently accessed |
Amazon Glacier |
Blob Storage: Archive Storage |
Cloud Storage Archive |
Containers and serverless
| Service |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
| Serverless container |
App Runner and AWS Fargate |
Container Apps |
Cloud Run |
| Function as a service |
AWS Lambda |
Function App |
Cloud Functions |
| Event handling |
Eventbridge |
Event Grid |
Event Arc |
| Kubernetes service |
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) |
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) |
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
| Container orchestration |
Elastic Container Service (ECS) |
Azure Container Apps (ACS) |
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
Databases
| Service |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
| In-memory storage |
Amazon Elasticache |
Azure Cache |
Memorystore |
| RDBMS |
Amazon RDS |
Azure SQL Database |
Cloud SQL |
| NoSQL |
DynamoDB |
CosmoDB |
Cloud Datastore and Cloud Bigtable |
| Data warehouse |
Redshift |
Azure Synapse Analytics |
Big Query |
