Thursday, 19 June 2025

AWS vs Azure Service Comparison Table



Category 

AWS Service 

Azure Equivalent 

Compute 

EC2 

Virtual Machines 

Container Orchestration 

ECS / EKS 

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 

Serverless Functions 

Lambda 

Azure Functions 

API Gateway 

API Gateway 

API Management 

Web Hosting (PaaS) 

No exact match 

Azure App Service 

Infrastructure as Code 

CloudFormation / CDK 

Bicep / ARM Templates 

CLI 

AWS CLI 

Azure CLI 

SDK 

Boto3 

Azure SDK for Python (azure-*) 

Identity & Access 

IAM 

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) 

Policy Control 

SCP (Service Control Policies) 

Azure Policy 

Multi-Account Mgmt 

AWS Organizations 

Azure Management Groups 

Resource Grouping 

N/A 

Azure Resource Groups 

Monitoring & Logs 

CloudWatch / CloudTrail 

Azure Monitor / Log Analytics 

Object Storage 

S3 

Azure Blob Storage 

File Storage 

EFS / FSx 

Azure Files 

Block Storage 

EBS 

Azure Managed Disks 

Database - Relational 

RDS 

Azure SQL Database 

Database - NoSQL 

DynamoDB 

Azure Cosmos DB 

Data Warehouse 

Redshift 

Azure Synapse Analytics 

ETL & Data Integration 

AWS Glue 

Azure Data Factory 

Big Data Processing 

EMR 

Azure HDInsight / Synapse Spark 

Message Queue 

SQS 

Azure Queue Storage / Service Bus 

Pub/Sub 

SNS 

Azure Event Grid / Event Hub 

Virtual Private Network 

VPC 

Azure Virtual Network (VNet) 

Private Connectivity 

Direct Connect 

ExpressRoute 

Firewall 

AWS Network Firewall 

Azure Firewall 

CDN 

CloudFront 

Azure Front Door / CDN 

DNS 

Route 53 

Azure DNS 

Bastion Host 

EC2 Bastion manually 

Azure Bastion 

Desktop as a Service 

Workspaces 

Azure Virtual Desktop 

Secrets Management 

AWS Secrets Manager 

Azure Key Vault 


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