AWS vs Azure Services

AWS service	Plain English definition	Azure equivalent	Description
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud / EC2	Host the bits of things you think of as a computer A web service that enables you to launch and manage Linux/UNIX and Windows server instances in Amazon’s data centers.	Virtual Machines (VMs)	Provision Windows and Linux Virtual Machines and applications in minutes
Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Setup additional users, setup new AWS Keys and policies A web service that enables Amazon Web Services customers to manage users and user permissions within AWS.	Azure Active Directory	Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
Amazon Simple Storage Service / S3	Store images and other assets for websites. Keep backups and share files between services. Host static websites. Also, many of the other AWS services write and read from S3. Storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web.	Azure Blob Storage	Durable, highly available and massively scalable cloud storage
Virtual private cloud / VPC	Overcome objections that “all our stuff is on the Internet!” by adding an additional layer of security. Makes it appears as if all of your AWS services are on the same little network instead of being small pieces in a much bigger network An elastic network populated by infrastructure, platform, and application services that share common security and interconnection.	Azure Virtual Private Network (VPN)	Your private network in the cloud
API Gateway	Proxy your apps API through this so you can throttle bad client traffic, test new versions, and present methods more cleanly.	API Management	Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
Amazon Relational Database Service / RDS	Be your app’s Mysql, Postgres, Oracle database A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost­ efficient, resizable capacity for an industry­ standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.	SQL Database	Managed Relational SQL Database-as-a-service
Route53	Buy a new domain, setup the DNS records for that domain A web service you can use to create a new DNS service or to migrate your existing DNS service to the cloud.	DNS	Host your DNS domain in Azure
Amazon Simple Email Service / SES	Send one off emails like password resets, notifications, etc. You could use it send Newsletter if you wrote all the code, but that’s not a great idea. An easy­ to ­use, cost ­effective email solution for applications.
Cloudfront	Make your websites load faster by spreading out static file delivery to be closer to where your users are. An AWS content delivery service that helps you improve the performance, reliability, and availability of your websites and applications.	CDN	Deliver content to end-users through a robust network of global data centers
CloudSearch	Pull in data on S3 or in RDS and and then search it for every instance of ‘Jimmy’ A fully ­managed service in the AWS cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application	Azure Search	Fully-managed search-as-a-service
DynamoDB	Be your app’s MongoDB	DocumentDB	NoSQL database for JSON documents optimized for frequent writes
Elasticache	Be your app’s Memcached or Redis	Redis Cache	High throughput, low latency data access to build fast and scalable applications
Elastic Transcoder Cognitor	Deal with video weirdness (change formats, compress, etc.)	Media Services	Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
Lambda	Run little self contained snippets of JS to do discrete tasks. Sort of a combination of a queue and execution in one. Currently mostly used for storing and then executing changes to your AWS setup. Also, you can put it behind the API Gateway and expose it that way.
Simple Queue Service (SQS)	Store data for future processing in a queue. The lingo for this is storing “messages” but it doesn’t have anything to do with email or SMS. SQS doesn’t have any logic it’s just a place to put things and take things out.	Azure Queue
Cognito	Give end users - (non AWS) - the ability to log in with Google, Facebook, etc.
Device Farm	Test your app on a bunch of different IOS and Android devices simultaneously
Mobile Analytics	Track what people are doing inside of your app
Simple Notification Service (SNS)	Send mobile notifications, emails and/or SMS messages	Notification Hubs	Scalable, cross-platform push notification infrastructure
CodeCommit	Version control your code - hosted Git	Visual Studio Online	Visual Studio Online offers: - hosted source control system - Team Foundation Service, Git - load testing service - support for agile development with features like continuous integration builds, Kanban boards and virtual team rooms.
Code Deploy	Get your code from your CodeCommit repo (or Github) onto a bunch of EC2 instances in a sane way
CodePipeline	Run automated test on your code and then do stuff with it depending on if it passes those tests
EC2 Container Service	Put a Dockerfile into an EC2 instance so you can run a website
Elastic Beanstalk	Move your app hosted on Heroku to AWS when it gets too expensive
AppStream	Put a copy of a Windows application on a windows machine that people get remote access to.	RemoteApp	Deploy Windows client apps in the cloud, run on any device
Direct Connect	Pay your Telco + AWS to get a dedicated leased line from your data center or network to AWS. Cheaper than Internet out for Data.	ExpressRoute	Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure
Directory Service	Tie together other apps that need a Microsoft Active Directory to control them	Azure AD Domain Services	Your domain controller as a service
WorkDocs	Share Word Docs with your colleagues
WorkMail	Give everyone in your company the same email system and calendar
Workspaces	Gives you a standard windows desktop that you’re remotely controlling
Service Catalog	Give other AWS users in your group access to preset apps you’ve built so they don’t have to read guides like this.
Storage Gateway	Stop buying more storage to keep word docs on. Make automating getting files into S3 from your corporate network easier	StorSimple	Enterprise hybrid cloud storage solution that provides primary storage, backup, archive, integrated data protection, and location-independent disaster recovery
Data Pipeline	Extract, Transform and Load data from elsewhere in AWS. Schedule when it happens and get alerts when they fail	Data Factory	Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
Elastic Map Reduce	Iterate over massive text files of raw data that you’re keeping in S3 A web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS products to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing.	HDInsight	Provision managed Hadoop clusters
Glacier	Make backups of your backups that you keep on S3. Also, beware the costs of getting data back out in a hurry. For long term archiving	Backup	Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
Kinesis	Ingest lots of data very quickly (For things like analytics or people retweeting Kanye) that you then later use other AWS services to analyze	Events Hub	Receive telemetry from millions of devices
RedShift	Store a whole bunch of analytics data, do some processing and dump it out	SQL Data Warehouse	Elastic data warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features
Machine Learning	Predict future behavior from existing data for problems like fraud detection or “people that bought x also bought y”	Azure Machine Learning	Powerful cloud-based predictive analytics
SWF	Build a service of “deciders” and “workers” on top of EC2 to accomplish a set task. Unlike SQS - logic is setup inside the service to determine how and what should happen
CloudFormation	Build a service of “deciders” and “workers” on top of EC2 to accomplish a set task. Unlike SQS - logic is setup inside the service to determine how and what should happen A service for writing or changing templates that create and delete related AWS resources together as a unit.
CloudTrail	Log who is doing what in your AWS stack (API calls)
CloudWatch	Get alerts about AWS services messing up or disconnecting A web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics, and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.	Azure Audit Logs	Includes all the provisioning actions performed in the Azure Resource Manager in addition to other actions related to managing Azure resources (ex. Alerts, AutoScaling, deployments etc).
Config	Keep from going insane if you have a large AWS setup and changes are happening that you want to track.
OpsWorks	Handle running your application with things like auto-scaling
Trusted Advisor	Find out where you’re paying too much in your AWS setup (unused EC2 instances, etc.)
Amazon Elastic File System	Managed service to easily set up and scale shared file storage Share files between applications running in your virtual machines using familiar Windows APIs or file REST API.	Azure Files	a shared file system that supports the standard SMB 2.1 protocol.
Elastic Block Store (EBS)	SSD-based storage	Azure Premium Storage	High-performance, low-latency disk support for virtual machines running I/O-intensive workloads
Directory Services Identity and Access Management Key Management Service (KMS)	Authentication and authorization	Azure Active Directory Multi-Factor Authentication Key Vault
CloudFormation	enables declarative provisioning of AWS cloud resources	Azure Resource Manager (ARM) JSON Template	to specify cloud resource definitions in a JSON file so that infrastructure can be deployed as code
Cloud HSM	Compliance	Azure Trust Center
AWS GovCloud	Government Services	Azure Government

References:

• List of AWS Products
• AWS Glossary
• List of Azure Services
• Mapping AWS services to those of other cloud providers