The document provides a comprehensive comparison of cloud services across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, detailing their offerings in various categories such as computing, storage, networking, databases, analytics, and security. It outlines specific services, their functionalities, and market availability as of May 2017, while also highlighting the differences in deployment and management tools provided by these platforms. The content serves as a reference for understanding the capabilities of each cloud provider in relation to enterprise needs.

1. Catagories Area AWS service Azure service Google Cloud Platform Description
Locations of 13R, 35AZ 10R, 27Z 7R, 20Z R-Region, AZ-Availability Zone, Z-Zone
Region/{AZ/Zone}
US East(N. Virginia) / 5 AZ(Availability Zone)
US East(Ohio) / 3 AZ
US West(N. California) / 2 AZ
US West(Oregon) / 3 AZ
Canada(Central) / 2 AZ
EU(Ireland) / 3 AZ
EU(Frankfurt) / 2 AZ
EU(London) / 2 AZ
Asia Pacific(Singapore) / 2 AZ
Asia Pacific(Sydney) / 3 AZ
Asia Pacific (Seoul) / 2 AZ
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) / 2 AZ
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) / 2 AZ
South America (São Paulo) / 2 AZ
US Central, East, East2,
North Central
South Central
West Central, West, West2
Canada Central, East
Europe North, West
UK South, West
Asia East, Southeast
Australia East, Southeast
Korea Central, South
Japan East, West
India Central, South
Brazil South
us-east1 / 3 Zone
us-cntral1 / 4 Zone
us-west1 / 2 Zone
europe-west1 / 3 Zone
asia-east1 / 3 Zone
asia-northeast1 / 3 Zone
asia-southeast1 / 2 Zone
Current: 2017-05-07
Marketplace Marketplace AWS Marketplace Azure Marketplace Google Cloud Lancher
Easy-to-deploy and automatically configured third-party applications, including
single virtual machine or multiple virtual machine solutions.
Virtual servers Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) VMs Azure Virtual Machines Google Compute Engine
Virtual servers allow users to deploy, manage, and maintain OS and server
software. Instance types provide combinations of CPU/RAM. Users pay for what
they use with the flexibility to change sizes.
Amazon Lightsail Azure Virtual Machines & Images
Collection of virtual machine templates to select from when building out your
virtual machine.
Container management EC2 Container Service (ECS) Azure Container Service Google Container Engine
A container management service that supports Docker containers and allows
users to run applications on managed instance clusters. It eliminates the need to
operate cluster management software or design fault-tolerant cluster
architectures.
EC2 Container Registry Azure Container Registry (Preview) Google Container Registry
Allows customers to store Docker formatted images. Used to create all types of
container deployments on Azure.
Microservice-based applications None Service Fabric
A compute service that orchestrates and manages the execution, lifetime, and
resilience of complex, inter-related code components that can be either stateless
or stateful.
Backend process logic Lambda Functions Google Cloud Functions
Used to integrate systems and run backend processes in response to events or
schedules without provisioning or managing servers.
Lambda @ Edge None Runs Lambda functions on AWS Edge locations in response to CloudFront events.
Job orchestration AWS Batch Azure Batch
Orchestration of the tasks and interactions between compute resources that are
needed when you require processing across hundreds or thousands of compute
nodes.
Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)
Azure App Service Scale Capability (PAAS)
Azure AutoScaling
Predefined templates AWS Quick Start Azure Quickstart templates
Community-led templates for creating and deploying virtual machine–based
solutions.
Object storage Simple Storage Services (S3)
Azure Storage—Block Blob (for content logs,
files) (Standard—Hot)
Google Cloud Storage Standard
Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content
distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics.
Azure Storage Disk—Page Blobs (for VHDs
or other random-write type data)
Azure Storage Disks—Premium Storage
Shared file storage Elastic File System Azure File Storage (file share between VMs)
Provides a simple interface to create and configure file systems quickly, and share
common files. It’s shared file storage without the need for a supporting virtual
machine, and can be used with traditional protocols that access files over a
network.
Archiving—cool storage S3 IA Glacier Azure Storage—Standard Cool Google Cloud Storage Nearline
Cool storage is a lower cost tier for storing data that is infrequently accessed and
long-lived.
Backup None Azure Backup
Backup and archival solutions allow files and folders to be backed up and
recovered from the cloud, and provide off-site protection against data loss. There
are two components of backup—the software service that orchestrates
backup/retrieval and the underlying backup storage infrastructure.
Hybrid storage Storage Gateway StorSimple
Integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage. Automates data
management and storage, plus supports disaster recovery.
Bulk data transfer AWS Import/Export Disk Import/Export
A data transport solution that uses secure disks and appliances to transfer large
amounts of data. Also offers data protection during transit.
AWS Import/Export Snowball
AWS Snowball Edge
AWS Snowmobile
Disaster recovery None Site recovery
Automates protection and replication of virtual machines. Offers health
monitoring, recovery plans, and recovery plan testing.
Cloud virtual networking Virtual Private Cloud Virtual Network
Provides an isolated, private environment in the cloud. Users have control over
their virtual networking environment, including selection of their own IP address
range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network
gateways.
Cross-premises connectivity AWS VPC Gateway Azure VPN Gateway
Azure VPN Gateways connect Azure virtual networks to other Azure virtual
networks, or customer on-premises networks (Site To Site). It also allows end
users to connect to Azure services through VPN tunneling (Point To Site).
Domain name system management Route 53 Azure DNS Google Cloud DNS and Google Domains
Manage your DNS records using the same credentials and billing and support
contract as your other Azure services
Route 53 Traffic Manager
A service that hosts domain names, plus routes users to Internet applications,
connects user requests to datacenters, manages traffic to apps, and improves app
availability with automatic failover.
Content delivery network CloudFront Azure Content Delivery Network
A global content delivery network that delivers audio, video, applications, images,
and other files.
Dedicated network Direct Connect ExpressRoute Google Cloud Interconnect
Establishes a dedicated, private network connection from a location to the cloud
provider (not over the Internet).
Load Balancer
Application Gateway
Relational database RDS SQL Database Google Cloud SQL
Relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) where the database resilience, scale, and
maintenance are primarily handled by the platform.
NoSQL—document storage DynamoDB DocumentDB Google Cloud Datastore or Google Cloud Bigtable
A NoSQL document database service that automatically indexes JSON data for
applications that require rich query and multidocument transactions.
NoSQL—key/value storage DynamoDB and SimpleDB Table Storage
A nonrelational data store for semi-structured data. Developers store and query
data items via web services requests.
Caching ElastiCache Azure Redis Cache
An in-memory–based, distributed caching service that provides a high-
performance store typically used to offload nontransactional work from a
database.
Database migration Database Migration Service (Preview) SQL Database Migration Wizard
Typically is focused on the migration of database schema and data from one
database format to a specific database technology in the cloud.
Elastic data warehouse Redshift SQL Data Warehouse Google BigQuery
A fully managed data warehouse that analyzes data using business intelligence
tools. It can transact SQL queries across relational and nonrelational data.
Big data processing Elastic MapReduce (EMR) HDInsight Google Cloud Dataflow
Supports technologies that break up large data processing tasks into multiple
jobs, and then combine the results to enable massive parallelism.
Data orchestration Data Pipeline Data Factory Google Cloud Dataproc
Processes and moves data between different compute and storage services, as
well as on-premises data sources at specified intervals. Users can create,
schedule, orchestrate, and manage data pipelines.
AWS Glue (Preview) Data Factory + Data Category
Cloud-based ETL/data integration service that orchestrates and automates the
movement and transformation of data from various sources.
Stream Analytics
Data Lake Analytics
Data Lake Store
Visualization QuickSight (Preview) PowerBI
Business intelligence tools that build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and
develop business insights from data.
None Power BI Embedded Allows visualization and data analysis tools to be embedded in applications.
Search Elasticsearch Service Marketplace—Elasticsearch A scalable search server based on Apache Lucene.
CloudSearch Azure Search Delivers full-text search and related search analytics and capabilities.
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DataCenter Location
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Google Cloud Load Balancing (HTTP/HTTPS Load
Balancing andNetwork Load Balancing)
Compute
Storage
Networking
&
Content Delivery
Database
Analytics and big data
Analytics Kinesis Analytics
Storage and analysis platforms that create insights from large quantities of data,
or data that originates from many sources.
None
Petabyte- to Exabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure data storage
devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud, at lower
cost than Internet-based transfers.
Load balancing Elastic Load Balancing
Automatically distributes incoming application traffic to add scale, handle
failover, and route to a collection of resources.
Scalability AWS Auto Scaling
Lets you automatically change the number of instances providing a particular
compute workload. You set defined metric and thresholds that determine if the
platform adds or removes instances.
Virtual Server disk infrastructure Elastic Block Store (EBS)
SSD storage optimized for I/O intensive read/write operations. For use as high
performance Azure virtual machine storage.

2. Machine learning Machine Learning Machine Learning
Produces an end-to-end workflow to create, process, refine, and publish
predictive models that can be used to understand what might happen from
complex data sets.
Data discovery None Data Catalog
Provides the ability to better register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume
data sources.
Amazon Athena None
Provides a serverless interactive query service that uses standard SQL for
analyzing databases.
Conversational user interfaces virtual
personal assistant
Alexa Skills Kits
Cortana Intelligence Suite —Cortana
Integration
Services cover intelligence cognitive services, machine learning, analytics,
information management, big data and dashboards and visualizations.
Microsoft Bot Framework + Azure Bot
Service
Builds and connects intelligent bots that interact with your users using text/SMS,
Skype, Teams, Slack, Office 365 mail, Twitter, and other popular services.
Speech recognition Amazon Lex Bing Speech API
API capable of converting speech to text, understanding intent, and converting
text back to speech for natural responsiveness.
Language Understanding Intelligent Service
(LUIS)
Allows your applications to understand user commands contextually.
Speaker Recognition API Gives your app the ability to recognize individual speakers.
Custom Recognition Intelligent Service
(CRIS)
Fine-tunes speech recognition to eliminate barriers such as speaking style,
background noise, and vocabulary.
Text to Speech Amazon Polly Bing Speech API Enables both Speech to Text, and Text into Speech capabilities.
Visual recognition Amazon Rekognition Computer Vision API
Distills actionable information from images, generates captions and identifies
objects in images.
Face API Detects, identifies, analyzes, organizes, and tags faces in photos.
Emotions API Recognizes emotions in images.
Video API
Intelligent video processing produces stable video output, detects motion,
creates intelligent thumbnails, detects and tracks faces.
Internet of Things
AWS IoT Other Services (Kinesis, Machine
Learning, EMR, Data Pipeline, SNS, QuickSight)
Azure IoT Suite (IoT Hub, Machine Learning,
Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, PowerBI)
Provides a preconfigured solution for monitoring, maintaining, and deploying
common IoT scenarios.
AWS IoT Azure IoT Hub
A cloud gateway for managing bidirectional communication with billions of IoT
devices, securely and at scale.
AWS Greengrass - Software for Connected
Devices
Azure IoT Gateway SDK
Contains the infrastructure and modules to create IoT gateway solutions. The SDK
can be used and extended to create gateways tailored to any end-to-end
scenario.
Kinesis Firehose
Kinesis Streams
Cloud advisor Trusted Advisor Azure Advisor
Provides analysis of cloud resource configuration and security so subscribers can
ensure they’re making use of best practices and optimum configurations.
Deployment orchestration (DevOps) OpsWorks (Chef-based) Azure Automation
Configures and operates applications of all shapes and sizes, and provides
templates to create and manage a collection of resources.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Google Cloud Deployment Manager
VM extensions
Azure Automation
Azure portal
Google Cloud Monitoring and Google Cloud
Logging
Azure Monitor (Preview)
CloudWatch Visual Studio Application Insights
An extensible analytics service that helps you understand the performance and
usage of your live web application. It's designed for developers, to help you
continuously improve the performance and usability of your app.
AWS X-Ray Azure Application Insights + Azure Monitor
An extensible application performance management service for web developers
on multiple platforms. You can use it to monitor your live web application, detect
performance anomalies, and diagnose issues with your app.
AWS Usage and Billing Report Azure Billing API
Services to help generate, monitor, forecast, and share billing data for resource
usage by time, organization, or product resources.
AWS Management Console Azure Portal
A unified management console that radically simplifies building, deploying, and
operating your cloud resources.
Administration AWS Application Discovery Service
Azure Log Analytics in Operations
Management Suite
Provides deeper insights into your application and workloads by collecting,
correlating and visualizing all your machine data, such as event logs, network
logs, performance data, and much more, from both on-premises and cloud
assets.
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
Microsoft Operations Management Suite—
Automation and Control functionalities
Enables continuous IT services and compliance through process automation and
configuration management. You can transform complex and repetitive tasks with
IT automation.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard Azure Resource Health (Preview)
Provides detailed information about the health of resources as well as
recommended actions for maintaining resource health.
Third Party Azure Storage Explorer
Standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage
data on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Mobile Apps
Xamarin Apps
Mobile SDK Mobile Apps
Provides the technology to rapidly build cross-platform and native apps for
mobile devices.
Cognito Mobile Apps Provides authentication capabilities for mobile applications.
App testing AWS Device Farm Xamarin Test Cloud (front end) Provides services to support testing mobile applications.
HockeyApp
Application Insights
Enterprise mobility management None Intune
Provides mobile device management, mobile application management, and PC
management capabilities from the cloud.
Azure Active Directory
Google Cloud Identity & Access Management
(Cloud IAM)
Azure Active Directory Premium
AWS Organizations
Azure Subscription and Service Management
+ Azure RBAC
Google Cloud Resource Manager Security policy and role management for working with multiple accounts.
Multi-Factor Authentication Multi-Factor Authentication Multi-Factor Authentication
Helps safeguard access to data and applications while meeting user demand for a
simple sign-in process. It delivers strong authentication with a range of
verification options, allowing users to choose the method they prefer.
Information protection None Azure Information Protection
Service to help control and secure email, documents, and sensitive data that you
share outside your company walls.
Encryption
Server-side encryption with Amazon S3 Key
Management Service
Azure Storage Service Encryption
Helps you protect and safeguard your data and meet your organizational security
and compliance commitments.
Key Management Service
CloudHSM
Firewall Web Application Firewall
Application Gateway Web Application
Firewall (preview)
A firewall that protects web applications from common web exploits. Users can
define customizable web security rules.
Security Inspector Security Center Google Cloud Security Scanner
An automated security assessment service that improves the security and
compliance of applications. Automatically assess applications for vulnerabilities
or deviations from best practices.
Certificate Manager
App Service Certificates available on the
Portal
Service that allows customers to create, manage and consume certificates
seamlessly in the cloud.
Directory services
AWS Directory Service + Windows Server
Active Directory on AWS
Azure Active Directory Domain Services +
Windows Server Active Directory on Azure
IaaS
Comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that provides a
robust set of capabilities to manage users and groups. It helps secure access to
on-premises and cloud applications, including Microsoft online services like
Office 365 and many non-Microsoft SaaS applications.
None Azure Active Directory B2C
A highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing
applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities.
AWS Directory Service Windows Server Active Directory Services for supporting Microsoft Active Directory in the cloud.
Compliance AWS Artifact Microsoft Service Trust Portal
Provides access to audit reports, compliance guides, and trust documents from
across cloud services.
Security AWS Shield Azure Marketplace—Security
Provides cloud services with protection from distributed denial of services (DDoS)
attacks.
Media transcoding Elastic Transcoder Media Services
Services that offer broadcast-quality video streaming services, including various
transcoding technologies.
Email Simple Email Service (SES) Marketplace—Email Services for integrating email functionality into applications.
Messaging Simple Queue Service (SQS) Azure Queue Storage Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Provides a managed message queueing service for communicating between
decoupled application components.
Messaging Simple Queue Service (SQS) Service Bus Queues, Topics, Relays
Supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies
including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging.
Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS)
Internet of things (IoT)
Management
&
monitoring
Mobile services
Security, identity, and acces
Intelligence
Authentication and authorization Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Allows users to securely control access to services and resources while offering
data security and protection. Create and manage users and groups, and use
permissions to allow and deny access to resources.
Key Vault
Provides security solution and works with other services by providing a way to
manage, create, and control encryption keys stored in hardware security modules
(HSM).
Pro app development Mobile Hub
Provides backend mobile services for rapid development of mobile solutions,
identity management, data synchronization, and storage and notifications across
devices.
Analytics Mobile Analytics
Supports monitoring, and feedback collection for the debugging and analysis of
a mobile application service quality.
CloudFormation
Provides a way for users to automate the manual, long-running, error-prone, and
frequently repeated IT tasks.
Management & monitoring (DevOps) CloudWatch
A unified console that radically simplifies building, deploying, and managing your
cloud resources.
Streaming data Event Hubs
Services that allow the mass ingestion of small data inputs, typically from devices
and sensors, to process and route the data.

3. Workflow Simple Workflow Service (SWF) Logic Apps
Serverless technology for connecting apps, data and devices anywhere—on-
premises or in the cloud for large ecosystems of SaaS and cloud based
connectors.
API management API Gateway API Management A turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers.
Enterprise app integration None BizTalk Services
Provides out-of-the box, cloud to on-premises, and line-of-business application
integration for SAP, Oracle EBS, SQL Server, and PeopleSoft.
Backend process logic Lambda Web Jobs
Technology to provide an easy way to run scripts or programs as background
processes in an application context.
Application development None Logic Apps (App Service)
Connect apps, data, and devices anywhere—on-premises or in the cloud—with
our large ecosystem of SaaS and cloud-based connectors that includes
Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google Services, and more.
Web Apps (App Service)
Cloud Services
API Apps (App Service)
CodeDeploy
CodeCommit
CodePipeline
AWS Developer Tools Azure Developer Tools
Collection of tools for building, debugging, deploying, diagnosing, and
managing multi-platform, scalable apps and services.
None Power Apps
Technology to rapidly build business solutions, connecting to existing services
and data sources such as Excel, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and more using a
visual designer.
App testing None Azure Dev/Test Labs (backend)
Testing technology to build out heterogeneous solutions for testing cross-
platform functionality to your dev/test environment. Integrates to a full DevOps
Continuous Integration/Deployment with Visual Studio Online service and 3rd
parties such as Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, CloudTest Lite, Octopus Deploy, and others.
App customer payment service
Amazon Flexible Payment Service and Amazon
Dev Pay
None
Cloud service that provides developers a payment service for their cloud based
applications.
Game development (cloud-based
tools)
GameLift None AWS managed service for hosting dedicated game servers.
Lumberyard None Game engine integrated with AWS and Twitch.
DevOps AWS CodeBuild Visual Studio Team Services
Fully managed build service that supports continuous integration and
deployment.
Backend process logic AWS Step Functions Azure Logic Apps (App Service)
Cloud technology to build distributed applications using out-of-the-box
connectors to reduce integration challenges. Connect apps, data and devices on-
premises or in the cloud.
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)
Azure PowerShell
Enterprise app integration none Azure Biztalk services
Provides out of the box cloud to on-premises and line-of-business application
integration for SAP, Oracle EBS, SQL Server, and PeopleSoft.
Enterprise application services none Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 delivers the full spectrum of CRM through five individual apps—
Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Project Service Automation, and Marketing
—that work seamlessly together.
Amazon WorkMail
Amazon WorkDocs
Content management in the cloud None SharePoint Online
Provides a collaborative way for individuals, teams, and organizations to
intelligently discover, share, and collaborate on content from anywhere and on
any device.
Commercial PAAS-IAAS-DBaaS
framework
None Azure Stack
A hybrid cloud platform that lets you deliver Azure services from your
organization’s datacenter.
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G Suite
Google App Engine
Developer tools
Enterprise integration
Programmatic access Command Line Interface
Built on top of the native REST API across all cloud services, various programming
language-specific wrappers provide easier ways to create solutions.
Office 365
Fully integrated Cloud service providing communications, email, document
management in the cloud and available on a wide variety of devices.
Elastic Beanstalk
Managed hosting platforms providing easy to use services for deploying and
scaling web applications and services.
Visual Studio Team Services Developer tools for scripting application deployment.