AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure: 25 Most Popular Services from 3 Leading Cloud Providers

Category	AWS	GCP	Azure
Compute	EC2	Compute Engine	Virtual Machines
	Lambda	Cloud Functions	Azure Functions
	ECS (Elastic Container Service)	Cloud Run	Azure Container Instances
	EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)	GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)	AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
Storage	S3 (Simple Storage Service)	Cloud Storage	Blob Storage
	EBS (Elastic Block Store)	Persistent Disks	Managed Disks
	EFS (Elastic File System)	Filestore	Azure Files
Database	RDS (Relational Database Service)	Cloud SQL	Azure SQL Database
	DynamoDB	Firestore / Bigtable	Cosmos DB
	Aurora	AlloyDB	Azure Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL
	Redshift	BigQuery	Azure Synapse Analytics
Networking	VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)	VPC	Virtual Network (VNet)
	Route 53	Cloud DNS	Azure DNS
	API Gateway	API Gateway	API Management
	Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)	Cloud Load Balancing	Azure Load Balancer
Security & Identity	IAM (Identity and Access Management)	IAM	Azure Active Directory (AAD)
	KMS (Key Management Service)	Cloud KMS	Azure Key Vault
	GuardDuty	Security Command Center	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Monitoring & Logging	CloudWatch	Cloud Monitoring	Azure Monitor
	CloudTrail	Cloud Audit Logs	Azure Activity Logs
	X-Ray	Cloud Trace	Application Insights
Messaging & Queuing	SQS (Simple Queue Service)	Pub/Sub	Azure Service Bus
	SNS (Simple Notification Service)	Pub/Sub	Event Grid
	Step Functions	Workflows	Logic Apps
DevOps & CI/CD	CodeBuild / CodePipeline	Cloud Build	Azure DevOps / Pipelines
	CloudFormation	Deployment Manager	Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Hopefully, this table comes handy and helps you to map these popular services across the three leading cloud service providers.

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