Cloud service providers (CSPs)
Public cloud computing services are supplied by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). The three hyperscale CSPs are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The networking rows in the table below – VPC, DNS, load balancing, and firewall – are the building blocks of cloud networking.
Service names
Service type | AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Compute (aka. virtual machines) | Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) | Azure Virtual Machine | Google Compute Engine | Oracle Virtual Machine |
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) | Oracle Container Engine | |
Serverless | AWS Lambda | Azure Functions | Cloud Functions | OCI Functions |
Blob storage | Simple Storage Service (S3) | Blob Storage | Cloud Storage | Object Storage |
Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Managed Disks | Persistent Disk | Persistent Volume | |
Elastic File System (EFS) | File Storage | File Store | File Store | |
Private cloud | Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Virtual Network | Virtual Private Cloud | Virtual Cloud Network |
Route 53 | DNS | Cloud DNS | DNS | |
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Load Balancer | Cloud Load Balancing | Load Balancer | |
Web Application Firewall | Web Application Firewall | Cloud Armor | Web Application Firewall | |
RDBMS | Relational Database Service (RDS) | SQL Database | Cloud SQL | ATP |
NoSQL | DynamoDB | Cosmos DB | Firebase Realtime Database | NoSQL Database |
Data warehouse | Redshift | Synapse Analytics | BigQuery | Autonomous Data Warehouse |
Real-time analytics | Elastic MapReduce | HDInsight | Dataproc | Big Data |
Data streaming | Kinesis | Streaming Analytics | Dataflow | Streaming |
SageMaker | Machine Learning | Vertex AI | Data Science | |
Data integration | Glue | Data Factory | Data Fusion | Data Integration |
EventBridge | Event Grid | Eventarc | Events | |
Simple Queue Service (SQS) | Storage Queues | Pub/Sub | Streaming | |
Notification service | Simple Notification Service (SNS) | Service Bus | Firebase Cloud Messaging | Notifications |
CloudWatch | Monitor | Cloud Monitoring | Monitoring | |
CloudFormation | Resource Manager | Deployment Manager | Resource Manager | |
Identity and access management | Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Azure Active Directory | Cloud Identity | IAM |
Secrets management | Key Management Service (KMS) | Key Vault | Cloud KMS | Vault |