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The big three public clouds - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform - have hundreds of services, and it can be hard to determine what you need for any given project.
This cheat sheet provides a comparison of the main services needed for data and AI-related work, from data engineering to data analysis and data science, to creating data applications.
Storage
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Object storage |
For storing any files you regularly use |
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Archive storage |
Low cost (but slower) storage for rarely used files |
S3 Glacier Instant, Glacier Flexible, Glacier Deep Archive tiers |
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File storage |
For storing files needing hierarchical organization |
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Block storage |
For storing groups of related files |
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Hybrid storage |
Move files between on-prem & cloud |
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Edge/offline storage |
Move offline data to the cloud |
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Backup |
Prevent data loss |
Database
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Relational DB management |
Standard SQL DB (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.) |
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NoSQL: Key-value |
Redis-like DBs for semi-structured data |
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NoSQL: Document |
MongoDB/CouchDB-like DBs for hierarchical JSON data |
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NoSQL: Column store |
Cassandra/HBase-like DBs for structured hierarchical data |
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NoSQL: Graph |
Neo4j-like DBs for connected data |
N/A |
N/A |
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Caching |
Redis/Memcached-like memory for calculations |
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Time Series DB |
DB tuned for time series data |
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Blockchain |
Dogecoin, etc. |
Blockchain Service, Blockchain Workbench, Confidential Ledger |
N/A |
Compute
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Virtual machines |
Software-emulated computers |
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Spot virtual machines |
Cost-effective VMs |
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Autoscaling |
Adjust resources to match demand |
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Functions as a service (Serverless computing) |
Execute code chunks without worrying about infrastructure |
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Platform as a service |
Manage applications without worrying about infrastructure |
App Service, Cloud Services, Spring Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift |
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Batch scheduling |
Run code at specified times |
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Isolated servers |
VM on your own machine, for high security |
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On-premise/Edge devices |
Cloud-services on your own hardware |
N/A |
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Quantum computing |
Determine if cat is alive or dead |
N/A |
Analytics
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Data Warehouse |
Centralized platform for all your data |
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Big data platform |
Run Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Presto, etc. |
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Business analytics |
Dashboards and visualization |
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Real-time analytics |
Streaming data analytics |
Kinesis Data Analytics, Kinesis Data Streams, Managed Streaming for Kafka |
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Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) |
Preprocessing and importing data |
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Workflow orchestration |
Build data and model pipelines |
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Data lake creation |
Import data into a lake |
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Managed search |
Enterprise search |
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Data Catalog |
Metadata management |
ML & AI
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Machine Learning |
Train, fit, validate, and deploy ML models |
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Jupyter notebooks |
Write data analyses and reports |
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Data science/machine learning VM |
Virtual machines tailored to data work |
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AutoML |
Automatically build ML models |
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Natural language Processing AI |
Analyze text data |
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Recommendation AI |
Product recommendation engine |
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Document capture |
Extract text from printed text & handwriting |
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Computer vision |
Image classification, object detection & other AI with image data |
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Speech to text |
Speech transcription |
Cognitive Services for Speech to Text, Cognitive Services for Speaker Recognition |
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Text to speech |
Speech generation |
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Translation AI |
Convert text between human languages |
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Video Intelligence |
Video indexing and asset search |
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AI agents |
Virtual assistants and chatbots |
Bot Service, Cognitive Services for Conversational Language Understanding |
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Human-in-the-loop |
Human-based quality control for AI |
N/A |
Networking & Content Delivery
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Content delivery network |
Serve content to users |
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Application Programming Interface (API) management |
Build and deploy APIs |
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Domain Name System (DNS) |
Route end users to applications |
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Load balancing |
Distribute work evenly across machines |
Containers
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Managed containers |
Run and deploy containers |
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Container registration |
Manage container images |
Management & Security, Identity
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Service type |
Description |
AWS |
Azure |
GCP |
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Access management |
User permissions and authentication |
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Activity tracking |
Track user Activity |
Monitor Activity Log |
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Security |
Protect your data, network and applications |
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Monitoring |
Monitor network traffic and detect anomalies |
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Automation |
Preform processes automatically |
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Cost optimization |
Reduce your cloud spend |
