Folks familiar with AWS who are learning Azure or who are familiar with Azure and learning AWS commonly find it challenging to map terminology from one service to the other. This page provides a mapping between services and names of resource types from each vendor. We include only the most commonly used services and terms.For a more complete mapping between Azure and AWS Services see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services
Services
Azure | AWS | Description |
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Azure Virtual Machines | Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | |
SQL Database Azure Database for MySQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Relational Database Service (RDS) | |
Azure Container Instances | EC2 Container Service (ECS) Fargate | |
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) | |
Azure Functions | Lambda | Serverless computing |
Azure Blob storage | Simple Storage Services (S3) | Object storage |
ExpressRoute | Direct Connect | Dedicated connection to on-premises networks |
Resource Type Names
Azure | AWS | Description |
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Virtual Network (VNet) | Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Cloud virtual networking |
Subnet | Subnet | |