Mapping of AWS and Google Cloud Terminologies
This is a full list of services from Google and Amazon side by side.
| Concept | Service | AWS Term | Google Cloud Term | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Center Cluster | Grouping of Data Centers | Region | Region | ||||||
| Abstracted Data Center | Data Center | Availability Zone | Zone | ||||||
| Edge Caching | Content Caching | CloudFront | Points of Presence (Multiple Services) | ||||||
| Computing | IaaS | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud | Google Compute Engine | ||||||
| Computing | PaaS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Google App Engine | ||||||
| Computing | Containers | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Container Service | Google Container Engine | ||||||
| Network | Load Balancer | Elastic Load Balancer | Google Cloud Load Balancing | ||||||
| Network | Peering | Direct Connect | Google Cloud Interconnect | ||||||
| Network | DNS | Amazon Route 53 | Google Cloud DNS | ||||||
| Storage | Object Storage | Amazon Simple Storage Service | Google Cloud Storage | ||||||
| Storage | Block Storage | Amazon Elastic Block Store | Google Compute Engine Persistent Disks | ||||||
| Storage | Cold Storage | Amazon Glacier | Google Cloud Storage Nearline | ||||||
| Storage | File Storage | Amazon Elastic File System | ZFS / Avere | ||||||
| Database | RDBMS | Amazon Relational Database Service | Google Cloud SQL | ||||||
| Database | NoSQL: Key-value | Amazon DynamoDB | Google Cloud Bigtable | ||||||
| Database | NoSQL: Indexed | Amazon SimpleDB | Google Cloud Datastore | ||||||
| Big Data & Analytics | Batch Data Processing | Amazon Elastic Map Reduce | Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Dataflow | ||||||
| Big Data & Analytics | Stream Data Processing | Amazon Kinesis | Google Cloud Dataflow | ||||||
| Big Data & Analytics | Stream Data Ingest | Amazon Kinesis | Google Cloud Pub/Sub | ||||||
| Big Data & Analytics | Analytics | Amazon Redshift | Google BigQuery | ||||||
| Application Services | Messaging | Amazon Simple Notification Service | Google Cloud Pub/Sub | ||||||
| Management Services | Monitoring | Amazon CloudWatch | Stackdriver Monitoring | ||||||
| Management Services | Deployment | AWS CloudFormation | Google Cloud Deployment Manager |