AWS & Azure services comparision

awsvsazure.md

TOPIC	AWS	AZURE	FUNCTIONALITY
Compute	EC2	Azure Virtual Machines	manage your own virtual machines, IaaS, this is the services you are looking at.
	Lambda	Azure function	need to execute a bit of code, but you don’t need a dedicated virtual machine for that. You can go server-less and use Azure functions or Lambda.
	Elastic Beanstalk	Azure App Services	running applications in the cloud, without having to worry too much about the servers they are running. They will have dedicated virtual machines under the hood.
Containers	AWS Fargate		Serverless container orchestration.
	AWS ECS Elastic container service		PaaS fully managed container orchestration service. You will still have the virtual machine cluster.
	EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)	AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)	Kubernetes as a service, with the dedicated virtual machine cluster.
Storage	S3 (Simple storage service)	Storage Account	To store files. This service is region-less in AWS and region-specific in Azure.
Security	IAM Roles	Azure AD	For access-control, in Azure, you would have Service Principals registered in Azure Active Directory, in AWS you will have roles configured in IAM. Both support a similar permissions model.
	AWS Cognito	Azure AD B2C	For when you want to implement Single sign-on from external providers like Twitter, Facebook or Active Directory.
	KMS (Key Management System)	Key vault	add the secret and only permit the specific people. secrets managements
Logs	Cloud trail	Azure Activity log	stores the logs of what actions have been done against resources, for example when a new virtual machine is started.
Databases	RDS (Relational databases server)	Azure Database	PaaS relational database servers
	Dynamo DB	Document DB	NoSql fully managed instances by both cloud providers, both work as key-value or document stores.
	Elastic Cache	Azure Cache for Redis	when your application could use a distributed caching layer with low latency. This is PaaS, so you don’t need to worry about maintaining the cache cluster.
Networking	VPC (Virtual private cloud)	Virtual Networks	Azure you have the concept of VNets, the major difference is that in AWS most services can be easily added into a VNet.
	Route 53	Azure Traffic manage	Service for setting routes at DNS level.
	API Gateway	API Management	Concept of API gateways, rather than having one client having to know about many backend services, you can add an API Gateway layer
	Cloud Front	Azure CDN	Content delivery networks are important when performance is key for your web applications. Rather than leaving your static files in your application virtual machines, we can use a dedicated resource for handling content distribution and caching.
	SQS	Azure queue	When you have a simple queue, one publisher and one consumer.
	SNS	Azure Notification Hub	SNS works in the publisher/subscriber pattern, so you could argue that is also equivalent to Azure Service Bus, because you could have multiple subscribers with their own SQS queue.
	AWS Kinesis	Azure Event hub	You are dealing with a high throughput queue.
Devops	Azure DevOps	Azure DevOps	Host your code with GIT or TFS. AWS has CodeCommit for this.
	Cloud formation	ARM Templates/blueprints	Creating your resources in the cloud for test purposes is fine
	AWS Cloud 9	Azure console	In Azure you have the option to have a bash/Powershell for writing commands, I found that AWS Cloud 9 provides you with a full own mini IDE environment
Monitoring	Cloud Watch	Azure monitor	Services need to report metrics, for example, the CPU percentage of the running virtual machines
	X-Ray	App Insights	what is going on your application, being able to see called requests, response times, success rates and dependency calls.