Folks familiar with AWS who are learning Azure or who are familiar with Azure and learning AWS commonly find it challenging to map terminology from one service to the other. This page provides a mapping between services and names of resource types from each vendor. We include only the most commonly used services and terms.

For a more complete mapping between Azure and AWS Services see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services

Services

AzureAWSDescription
Azure Virtual MachinesElastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 
SQL Database

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL		Relational Database Service (RDS) 
Azure Container InstancesEC2 Container Service (ECS)

Fargate		 
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) 
Azure FunctionsLambdaServerless computing
Azure Blob storageSimple Storage Services (S3)Object storage
ExpressRouteDirect ConnectDedicated connection to on-premises networks

Resource Type Names

AzureAWSDescription
Virtual Network (VNet)Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Cloud virtual networking
SubnetSubnet