S ervice type D sc e ription

AWS, Azure & GCP Service Comparison for Data Science & AI
Object storage For storing any files you regularly use Simple Storage Service (S3) Blob Storage Cloud Storage Buckets

Low cost (but slower) storage for rarely S3 Glacier Instant, Glacier Flexible, Cloud Storage Nearline, Coldline,
Archive storage Blob Cool/Cold/Archive tiers
used files Glacier Archive

For storing files needing hierarchical

File storage Elastic File System (EFS), FSx Avers vFXT, Files Filestore
organization
torage

Block storage For storing groups of related files Elastic Block Storage Disk Storage Persistent Disk
S

Hybrid storage Move files between on-prem & cloud Storage Gateway StorSimple, Migrate Storage Transfer Service

Edge/offline storage Move offline data to the cloud Snowball Data Box Transfer Appliance

Backup Prevent data loss Backup Backup Backup and Disaster Recovery

Standard S QL DB (PostgreSQL, MySQL,

Relational Database Service (RDS),
Relational DB management SQL Server, etc.) Aurora
SQL, SQL Database Cloud S QL, Cloud Spanner

NoSQL: Key-value Redis-like DBs for semi-structured data DynamoDB Cosmos DB, Table storage Cloud BigTable, Firestore

MongoDB/CouchDB-like DBs for

Firestore, Firebase Realtime
NoSQL: Document hierarchical JSON data
DocumentDB Cosmos DB Database
E DA ABAS

H
Cassandra/ Base like - DBs for structured
NoSQL: Column store hierarchical data
Keyspaces Cosmos DB Cloud BigTable
T

NoSQL: Graph Neo 4j-like DBs for connected data Neptune N/A N/A

Redis/Memcached-like memory for Redis, HPC Cache Memorystore

Caching ElastiCache Cache for
calculation

Time Series DB DB tuned for time series data Timestream Time Series Insights Cloud BigTable

Blockchain Service, Blockchain Workbench,

Blockchain Dogecoin, etc. Managed Blockchain Confidential Ledger

N/A

Virtual machines -
Software emulated computers Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Virtual Machines Compute Engine

Spot virtual machines -

Cost effective V Ms EC2 Spot Instances Spot Virtual Machines Spot V Ms

Autoscaling

Autoscaling
j
Ad ust resources to match demand
EC2 Auto Scaling Virtual Machine Scale Sets Instance Groups

Functions as a service
Execute code chunks without worrying
Lambda Functions Cloud Functions
(Serverless computing) about infrastructure

Manage applications without worrying Red Hat OpenShift on

MPUTE

Elastic Beanstalk, App Service, Cloud Services, 


Platform as a service App Engine
about infrastructure AWS Spring Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift

Run code at specified times

CO

Batch sche uling d Run code at specified times Batch

Batch Batch, Cloud Scheduler

M on your own machine, for high

Isolate d servers V
security
Dedicated Instances Dedicated Host -
Sole tenant Nodes, Shielded V Ms

-
On premise /Ed -
Cloud services on your own hardware Outposts, Snow Modular N/A

Modular Datacenter, Stack Hub,

-
On premise /Edge devices -
Cloud services on your own hardware Outposts, Snow Family Stack HCI, Stack Edge

N/A

Quantum computing Determine if cat is alive or dead Braket Quantum N/A

Data Warehous e

RedShift Query
Data Warehouse Synapse Analytics Big
Centralized platform for all your data

Big data platform Run Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Presto, etc. E MR Data Explorer, HDInsight Dataproc

Power BI Embedded, Looker, Looker Studio ,

Business anal tics y Dashboards and visualization Quicksight, FinSpace Graph Data Connect

Vertex AI Workbench

Kinesis Data Analytics, Kinesis Data

Real-time analytics Streaming data analytics
Streams, Managed Streaming for Kafka
Stream Analytics, Event Hubs Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Datastream
nalytics

Glue, Kinesis Data Firehose, SageMaker Data Fusion, Dataflow, Dataproc,

Extract-Transform-Load ETL ( ) Preprocessing and importing data Data rangler

W
Data Factory Dataprep by Trifacta
A

Data Pipeline, Managed Workflows for

Data Factory
Workflow orchestration Build data and model pipelines Cloud Composer
Airflow

Data lake creation Import data into a lake Lake Formation Data Share Cloud Storage

CloudSearch, OpenSearch Service,

Managed search Enterprise search
Kendra Cognitive Search Cloud Search

Data Catalog Metadata management Glue Data Catalog Purview, Data Explorer Data Catalog

Machine Learning Train, fit, validate, and deploy ML models Sage Maker Machine Learning Vertex AI

Jupyter notebooks Write data analyses and reports Sage Maker Notebooks Notebooks Colab

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Data science machine

Virtual machines tailored to data work Deep Learning AMIs Data Science Virtual Machines Deep Learning VM
learning VM

Machine Learning Studio,

AutoML Automatically build ML models Sage Maker Automated ML

Vertex AI Workbench

Natural language
Analyze text data Comprehend Text Analytics Natural Language AI
Processing AI

Recommendation AI Product recommendation engine Personalize Personalizer Recommendations AI

Extract text from printed text & Recognizer Document AI

Document capture Textract Form
ML & AI

handwriting

Image classification, ob ect detection j &

Rekognition, Panorama, Lookout for
Computer vision Cognitive Services for Vision Vision AI
other AI with image data Vision

Cognitive Services for Speech to

Speech to text Speech transcription Transcribe Text, Cognitive Services for Speaker - -
Speech to Text
Recognition

Text to speech
Cognitive Services for Text to
Text to speech Speech generation
Polly Speech
- -
Text to Speech

Cognitive Services for Speech

Translation AI Convert text between human languages Translate
Translation, Translator
Translation AI

Video Intelligence Video indexing and asset search Rekognition Video Video Indexer Video Intelligence A I P

Bot Service, Cognitive Services for

AI agents Virtual assistants and chatbots Lex, Alexa Skills kit Conversational Language Dialogflow
Understanding

Human-in-the-loop Human-based quality control for AI Augmented AI (A2I) Cognitive Services Content Monitor NA

Content delivery net work Serve content to users CloudFront Content Delivery Network D
Cloud C N and Media CDN
Content Delivery
Networking &

Application Programming

Build and deploy A Is P P

A I Gateway P
A I Apps, A I P Management Apigee A I P Management
Interface (API) management

Domain Name System (D NS ) Route end users to applications Route 53 DNS Cloud DNS

Application Gateway, Load Balancer,

Load balancing Distribute work evenly across machines Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Traffic Manager Cloud Load Balancing
NTAINERS

Elastic Kubernetes Service, Elastic

Managed containers Run and deploy containers Container Service
Kubernetes Service, Container Apps Kubernetes Engine

Container registration Manage container images Elastic Container Registry Container Registry Artifact Registry
CO
Management & Security, Identity

Access management User permissions and authentication Identity and Access Management (IAM) Active Directory Cloud Identity

Access Transparency and Access

Activit y tracking Track user activity CloudTrail Monitor Activity Log Approval

Protect your data, network and

Securit y applications
Security Hub Security Security Command Center

Monitor network traffic and detect CloudWatch,

Monitoring anomalies Transit Gateway Network Manager Monitor, Anomaly Detector Operations, Network Intelligence Center

Automation Preform processes automatically Ops Works Automation Compute Engine Management

Cost optimization Reduce your cloud spend Cost Optimization Cost Management Recommender