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.
