Cloud Provider Services Map

Standard Compute Services

Access to virtual machine instances

Compute Engine

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Virtual Machines

Fully-Managed Backends

Services to fully handle deployment, host provisioning, and load balancing while limiting the user's manual control

App Engine (Standard Environment)

Managed Services

App Service

Managed Backends

Services to handle deployment, provisioning, and load balancing while still giving control of the resources underneath

App Engine (Flexible Environment)

Elastic Beanstalk

Cloud Services

Serverless

Services that let the user run individual functions without provisioning or managing the underlying servers

Cloud Functions

Lambda

Functions

Microservices

Platforms to help package, deploy, and manage microservices

App Engine

Step Functions

Service Fabric

Containers

Services to help run, configure, and manage containerized applications

Kubernetes Engine

Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Fargate

Container Service (AKS)

Container Registry

Services for storing private container images

Container Registry

EC2 Container Registry

Container Registry

Auto-Scaling

Services for automatically scaling groups of hosts up or down in response to demand

Autoscaling

Auto Scaling

Autoscale

Auto-Scaling Groups

Terms for the VM groups that are managed by auto scaling rules

Instance groups

Auto Scaling Groups

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Batch Processing

Services to automatically manage large-scale batch processing jobs

Cloud Dataflow

AWS Batch

Batch

Bidding

Services offering lower prices on spare instances when available

EC2 Spot Instances

Simplified Compute Services

Access to virtual machine instances, but with less complexity and better ease-of-use

Lightsail

Cloud Storage

Services for general purpose data storage

Cloud Storage

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Blob Storage

On-Prem to Cloud Hybrid Storage

Services to connect on-prem storage with cloud-based storage

Storage Gateway

StorSimple

SQL Service

Services to set up, operate, and scale a relational database

Cloud SQL

Relational Database Service (RDS)

SQL Databases

Cold Data

Inexpensive, long-term data storage services with longer retrieval times

Archival Cloud Storage (Nearline, Coldline)

Glacier

Cool Blob Storage

NoSQL

NoSQL cloud database services

Cloud Datastore, Cloud Bigtable

DocumentDB, DynamoDB, SimpleDB

Table Storage

Cache

Services to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud

Memcache

ElastiCache

Redis Cache

Disk Storage

Services to access disk storage in the cloud

Persistent Disk

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Disk Storage

Application Messaging

Services to handle event streams and messaging between independent applications or microservices

PubSub

Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon MQ

Queue Storage and Service Bus

Hybrid SQL and NoSQL

Table storage services that support both SQL and NoSQL-like queries

Cloud Spanner

CosmosDB

Data Orchestration

Tools to manage the movement of data from one storage or processing service to another

Cloud Dataflow

Data Pipeline, Glue

Data Factory

Serverless Query Service

Serverless products for the analysis of stored data with SQL queries

Athena

SQL Elastic Pool

Services designed to reduce costs by sharing compute and storage resources across multiple isolated databases

SQL Elastic Pools

Virtual Network

Services providing isolated virtual private networks within a major cloud service

Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud

Virtual Network

Load Balancing

Services to automatically distribute load across various resources based on application or network metrics (including DNS, Application, and Transport Layers)

Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing

Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway

CDN

Global content delivery network services to manage the delivery of web content to users

CDN

CloudFront

CDN

Cloud Provider Connection

Tools to create a dedicated network connection from on-premise to the cloud provider

Interconnect

Direct Connect

ExpressRoute

DNS

Scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web services

DNS

Route 53

DNS

Video and Media Services

Collections of tools related to storing and streaming video content

Media Solutions

Media Services, Elemental Media Services

Media Services

Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure performance monitoring tools

Stackdriver

CloudWatch

Azure Monitor

Application Performance Monitoring

Tools for collecting and visualizing end-to-end traces of requests on an application

Stackdriver

X-Ray

Application Insights

Billing

Tools to better predict and control the costs and bills associated with cloud provider services

Billing API

Billing, Cost Explorer

Billing

Logs

Tools to collect and store log data and events

Stackdriver Logging

Cloudwatch Logs

Diagnostics Logs, Log Analytics

Advisors

Tools to analyze and optimize a cloud environment for security, performance, and cost effectiveness

Recommendations

Trusted Advisor

Advisor

API Management

Tools to create and manage APIs

Cloud Endpoints

API Gateway

API Apps (to create) or API Management (to manage)

Resource Management

Tools to define, provision, and manage compute resources

Deployment Manager, Cloud Console, Resource Manager

CloudFormation

Resource Manager

Configuration Management

Tools for automated configuration and instance management

OpsWorks, Config

Automation

Service Catalog

Tools for creating catalogs of IT services like VM images, software, or databases that are approved for use

Service Catalog

Business Intelligence

Services to visualize and analyze business data

QuickSight

Machine Learning

Managed services to create machine learning models

Machine Learning Services

Machine Learning, SageMaker

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Tools to derive meaning from language and enable bot conversations

Natural Language API

Lex, Comprehend

Cognitive Services, Language Understanding (LUIS)

Image Recognition

Tools to detect objects, scenes, and faces in images

Vision API

Rekognition, Rekognition Video

Cognitive Services

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

Tools to convert speech into text

Speech API

Lex, Transcribe

Cognitive Services

Text-to-Speech

Tools to convert text into speech

Polly

Bing Speech API

Translation

Tools to translate text across languages

Translation API

Translate

Cognitive Services

Bot Management

Tools to build, connect, deploy, and manage bots

Bot Services

IoT Platforms

Cloud platforms to connect IoT devices with applications

Cloud IoT Core (Beta)

AWS IoT, IoT Device Management

IoT Hub

IoT Analytics

Tools to visualize and analyze IoT data

Time Series Insights

Local IoT Functionality

Tools to provide familiar cloud functionality to offline IoT devices

Greengrass

Identity and Access Management

Tools to control user access and privileges

IAM

IAM

Azure Active Directory

Key Management

Tools to store and manage encryption keys

Cloud Key Management Service

Key Management Service

Key Vault

Security Visibility

Tools to visualize and manage the status of other cloud resources

Systems Manager

Security Center

Vulnerability Scanner

Tools for automated detection of security vulnerabilities

Security Scanner

GuardDuty, Inspector

SSL/TLS Certificates

Tools for provisioning, managing, and deploying SSL/TLS certificates

SSL Certificates

Certificate Manager

Certificates

Compliance Reports

Portal to access compliance reports and online agreements

Artifact

Web App Firewall

Tools to customize security rules and protect from DDoS attacks on web apps

Firewall

Web Application Firewall & Shield

Web Application Firewall

Identity-Aware Proxy

Tools to guard access to an application via a proxy that verifies identity

Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy

Security Keys

Services to enforce two-step verification via a physical security key

Security Key Enforcement

Git

Services for hosting private Git repositories

Cloud Source Repositories

CodeCommit

Visual Studio Team Services

Code Building

Tools for compiling, testing, and packaging code for deploy

Container Builder

CodeBuild

Visual Studio Team Services

Code Deployment

Tools to automate code deployments

CodeDeploy

Visual Studio Team Services

CI/CD Pipeline Management

Tools to automate the code development pipeline

CodePipeline, CodeStar

Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Mobile Center

App Development Tools

Supplementary services to aid in the app development process, such as crash reporting and analytics

Debugger and Error Reporting

HockeyApp

Dev Environment

Services used to provision dev/test environments quickly

Test Lab

Device Farm

Azure DevTest Labs

Integrated Development Environment

Cloud-based environments for writing and debugging code

Cloud9

Mobile Development Center

Ecosystems for simplifying the development of mobile applications

Firebase

Mobile Hub

Mobile Apps

Mobile App Analytics

Tools to collect and act on mobile app usage statistics

Firebase

Mobile Analytics

Mobile Engagement

Search

Search functionality as a service for web or mobile apps

CloudSearch

Search Services

Workflow Management

Tools to design visual workflows that manage an app's logical flow through various functions or integrations

Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

Logic Apps

Push Notifications

Push notification functionality as a service

Pub/Sub

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Notification Hubs

User Engagement Platforms

Services that run targeted campaigns to drive user engagement in mobile apps

Pinpoint

User Sign Ins

Services to add user sign-ups and sign-ins within apps

Cognito

Desktop App Streaming

Services to make desktop apps accessible from browsers

AppStream

Data Warehouses

Data warehouse services designed for large structured datasets

BigQuery

Redshift

SQL Data Warehouse

Streaming & Analytics

Tools to run parallel analytics on real-time streaming data

Cloud Dataflow

Kinesis

Stream Analytics

Data Lake

Services for storage of massive amounts of unstructured data

Data Lake

Big Data Processing

Tools for data processing jobs using Hadoop clusters

Dataproc, Dataflow

Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

HDInsight

Streaming Data Ingestion

Fully managed services for the capture, transformation, and loading of streaming data

Cloud Pub/Sub

Kinesis Firehose

Event Hub

Machine Learning Data Exploration

Tools for analyzing and visualizing data for machine learning models

Datalab

Genomics Processing

Platform for uploading, processing, and searching petabytes of genomics data

Genomics

Migration Services

Tools for migrating servers and databases from on-prem to cloud storage

Storage Transfer Service

Database Migration Service, Server Migration Service

Migrate

Application Discovery

Tools to automatically detect on-prem applications and their dependencies

Application Discovery Service

Migrate

Appliance-Based Migration

Petabyte-scale data transfer services using physical appliances

Google Transfer Appliance

Snowball, Snowmobile

Data Box

Migration Management

Tools focused on visualizing and organizing a migration

Migration Hub

Migrate

On-Premise Backup and Recovery

Services designed to back up on-prem data with cloud storage

Backup Vault, Recovery Services

File System

File storage systems that emphasize standardization across hybrid environments

Elastic File System (EFS), Elastic File Sync

File Storage

Hybrid SQL

Services to create hybrid on-prem and cloud SQL databases

SQL Server Stretch Database