About

One dictionary for three clouds.

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud sell almost the same building blocks under completely different names. CloudEquiv translates between them.

Why CloudEquiv exists

If you know AWS and join a team on Azure, you spend your first weeks asking "what's the Azure version of this?". If you're planning a migration, you need a map of every service you use and where it lands. If you're studying for a certification, you need the names to stick. The official comparison pages are long tables, each written from one vendor's point of view.

CloudEquiv puts all three clouds side by side, search-first, with the differences that matter before you migrate.

Who it's for

• Engineers and architects moving workloads between clouds or running multicloud.
• Consultants and pre-sales teams translating a customer's stack on the spot.
• Students and certification candidates learning AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, often by comparison with the one they already know.

How we map services

CloudEquiv covers 186 capabilities in 17 categories. Each mapping lists the first-party services from each provider (marketplace and partner products aren't included) and gets one of three ratings:

• Exact

  Near 1:1. Same job and similar model, so a migration is mostly configuration.

• Close

  Same purpose, but with notable differences in features, limits or pricing model.

• Partial

  Overlaps only in part, or at least one cloud has no first-party equivalent. 25 capabilities currently have a gap on at least one cloud.

Every mapping includes a short "What's different" note covering the gotchas, retirements and renames you should know about.

Accuracy

Cloud providers launch, rename and retire services constantly. The data was last reviewed in September 2026. Treat CloudEquiv as a fast starting point and always confirm details, limits and pricing in the provider's official documentation (each service links to a docs search) before making decisions.

Independence

CloudEquiv is an independent project. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft or Google. All product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify their services.