Comparison of the naming conventions for the different tools used in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS
Overall, the public cloud services offered by Microsoft and Amazon are similar, however using the two platforms can be made more complex by virtue of them using different naming conventions for similar services.
We have provided the following list which lists the different Azure and AWS services and the names used for them by the two platforms. For more information about how igroup can help your organisation take advantage of the cloud, please contact one of our Azure consultants or Amazon AWS specialists today.
Your virtual server is used to host applications and data. Instances can be configured using different combinations of RAM/CPU and are flexible:
Azure Term: Virtual Machines
AWS Term: Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Instances
Scaling allows you to change the number of instances that are required automatically based on application need:
Azure Term: Virtual Machine Scale Sets
AWS Term: Auto Scaling
This is storage for use cases including cloud applications, disaster recovery, archiving or big data analytics:
Azure Term: Blob Storage
AWS Term: Simple Storage Services (S3)
This refers to SSDs which have been optimised for intensive read/write usage:
Azure Term: Managed Disks
AWS Term: Elastic Blob Store (EBS)
These tools provide an interface to build file systems quickly and share common files:
Azure Term: Files
AWS Term: Elastic File System
These tools integrate on-premises and cloud environments to automate management and storage as well as supporting disaster recovery:
Azure Term: StorSimple
AWS Term: Storage Gateway
This improves security and compliance of applications and assesses vulnerabilities:
Azure Term: Security Centre
AWS Term: Inspector
Services that allow for the creation of and management of security certificates in the cloud:
Azure Term: App Service Certificates
AWS Term: Certificate Manager
Monitoring service to detect and investigate attacks both on premises and in the cloud:
Azure Term: Advanced Threat Protection
AWS Term: GuardDuty
This service detects and protects against distributed denial of service attacks on data or applications:
Azure Term: DDoS Protection Service
AWS Term: Shield
These tools manage access to documents at a user level and allow permissions to be managed at group and individual user level:
Azure Term: Active Directory
AWS Term: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
These tools manage access to services for end users in a B2C application
Azure Term: Azure Active Directory B2C
AWS Term: Cognito
These services allow you to create encryption keys and manage security of information for end users:
Azure Term: Key Vault
AWS Term: CloudHSM, Key Management Services (KSM)
These tools manage access to documents at a user level and allow permissions to be managed at group and individual user level:
Azure Term: Active Directory
AWS Term: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
This service gives users control over their virtual networking environment. It includes the selection of IP range, and configuration of network gateways and subnet creation:
Azure Term: Virtual Network
AWS Term: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
These services connect virtual networks to other networks either virtual or physical through P2S (Point to Site) and STS (Site to Site) methods:
With both Amazon and Azure, you can establish a private network from a specific location to the cloud without using the internet:
Azure Term: ExpressRoute
AWS Term: Direct Connect
Traffic to web applications hosted in either Azure or AWS can be load balanced at layer 4 (TCP or UDP) levels
Azure Term: Load Balancer
AWS Term: Network Load Balancer
A managed relational database.
Azure Term: SQL Database / Database for MySQL / Database for PostgreSQL
AWS Term: RDS
A multi-modal database that supports multiple data models including documents, graphs, columnar, and key value
Azure Term: CosmosDB
AWS Term: DynamoDB / SimpleDB / AmazonDocumentDB
Caching helps improve performance by storing a static version of non-transactional content ready for distribution.
Azure Term: Cache for Redis
AWS Term: ElastiCache
Solutions that collect data from telemetry on your cloud and on-premises environments for analysis:
Azure Term: Monitor
AWS Term: CloudWatch / X-Ray
Services that allow developers to work together on code:
Azure Term: DevOps
AWS Term: CodeDeploy / CodeCommit / CodePipeline
Services that provide ways for users to automate the long-running, frequently repeated and error prone IT tasks:
Azure Term: Resource Manager / VM Extensions / Azure Automation
AWS Term: CloudFormation
Analysis of resource usage by time, process and organisation to generate and monitor budgets which can be used to help reduce azure costs or AWS costs when analysed.
Azure Term: Billing API
AWS Term: Usage and Billing Report
The dashboard for providing Azure managed services or AWS managed services and build, deploy and operate resources:
Azure Term: Portal
AWS Term: Management Console
To enable Azure migration from other platforms, or facilitate migration to AWS cloud systems, the following terms are used:
Azure Term: Migrate
AWS Term: Application Discovery Service
Services that help to manage cloud costs while maximising available resource – these are extended by igroup’s own IT Cost Control service which adds extra functionality to help reduce azure costs further:
Azure Term: Cost Management
AWS Term: Cost Explorer
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