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I’ve recently started using Amazon Web Services, had already been using Microsoft Azure, and have dabbled with Google’s cloud services. Between them there’s a lot of new terminology many of which has not yet been standardized. This is going to be an ongoing post basically to normalize the naming between all three.
| Generic Name | Azure | Amazon | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server | Virtual Machine | EC2 | Compute Engine |
| Container Hosting | Azure Container Service | EC2 Containers | Container Engine |
| Short Lived Containers | Azure Functions | Lambdas | Cloud Functions |
| File Storage | Blob/File Storage | S3 | Cloud Storage |
| Archival Storage | Cold Storage | Glacier | Nearline Storage |
| Content Delivery | Azure CDN | Cloud Front | Cloud CDN |
| NoSQL App Storage | DocumentDB | DynamoDB | Cloud Datastore |
| Managed SQL Server | SQL Database | RDS | Cloud SQL |
| In Memory Data Cache | Redis Cache | ElastiCache | Redis Cloud (Partner) |
| Data Analytics | Data Warehouse | Redshift | BigTable |
| Massive Data Analytics | Data Lake | EMR | BigQuery |
| DNS | Azure DNS | Route 53 | Cloud DNS |
Note: This is an overview based on my experiences and therefore is a rough approximation based on how you would use the service, not how it functions technically.