Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I have been looking to working Azure and AWS simultaneously and often get lost between the terms used in Azure and AWS. I think if one knows logical functionality of one then managing other should not be a problem. Anyway, below is the few common terms that are used in Azure and AWS and will be used for comparison purposes. I
IaaS Resources: Compute
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Microsoft Azure |
General Purpose (T2, M3) | General Purpose (A-Series) |
Compute Optimized (C3,C4)
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Compute Optimized (A11)
Network Optimized (A9) |
Memory Optimize (R3) | Compute Optimized (D-Series) |
Storage Optimized (I2) | Storage Optimized (DS / GS Series) |
Dense Storage | Performance Optimized |
IaaS Resources: Storage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Microsoft Azure |
S3 Object Storage | Block Blob |
EBS Block Storage | Page Blob |
Glacier Archival | Azure Backup |
Supports Import/Export | Supports Import / Export |
IaaS Resources: Network
Amazon Web Services | Microsoft Azure |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Virtual Network (VNet) |
VPN | Point-to-Site, Site-to-Site |
Direct Connect | Express Route |
Elastic Load Balancer | Traffic Manager / Azure Load Balancer |
Route 53 | Azure DNS and Traffic Manager |
Elastic IP | Reserved IP |
Security Group | Network Security Group |
Availability Zones | Availability Sets |
Few others
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Microsoft Azure |
RDS | Azure SQL |
Dynamo DB | Azure Tables |
Elasti Cache | Azure Cache |
Redshift | SQL Data Warehouse |
Aurora | |
Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Azure Active Directory |
Cloud Watch | Azure Monitoring |
Code Deploy | Visual Studio Online |
EC2 Instances | Virtual Machines |
Cloud Formation | Azure Resource Manager Templates |
Beanstalks | Azure WebApp / Worker Roles |
Amazon Glacier | Azure Backup |
CloudFront | Content Delivery Network (CDN) |
None | Azure Site Recovery |
Cloud Trail | Azure Operational Insights |
Workmail | Office 365 |
I will continue to update this list as I know of more features on Azure and AWS.