Be Multi-Cloud Developer
Cloud developers are in hot demand in 2020. As of today, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are the top three public cloud platforms. All of them are very rich platforms and it takes a lot of time to build expertise in any one of them. AWS and Azure both are competing with each other to become number one. While AWS has been on the top all the while, Azure has picked up pace in the last few years. Actually as per few reports, Azure adoption was more than AWS adoption in the year 2019.
I have been working on AWS for quite a while and recently picked up Azure. There are lots of services that are similar but exist with different names and subtle differences. In this post,I will map the services from these top two platforms so that if one has worked in any one platform, can easily understand the other platform. Of Course it will not be possible to put all the fine differences here but that is something can be built on once you understand the platform on a high level. This article will hopefully accelerate your journey to become a multi-cloud developer.
Before we get into each service, let’s look at how the service list looks like. Both platforms provide a huge number of services so it is not possible to grab a complete list in a single screenshot so I tried best to capture as much as possible to give you an idea on overall services.
First, let’s look at Azure portal.
Now look at the service list from AWS.
Now we will go one by one and compare services and some terms/ concepts from both platforms. We will go by Service Category starting with understanding some general terms.
General
Compute
Storage
Database
Containers
Networking
Networking Continues
Analytics
Machine Learning + AI
Monitoring
Management + Governance
Migration
Integration
Security, Identity and Compliance
Developer Tools
Phew!! That is a lot of services. Isn’t it?
Of Course there are more services in other specialized categories like IoT, Media and Mobile and it is easy to map it yourself if you are really working in those areas.
Differences
Finally, I will end with some of the services / features for which I did not find corresponding features in other platforms. These are not the only differences but I have picked five randomly in no particular order.
Few AWS features found missing in Azure:
Few Azure features found missing in AWS:
I hope you have found the post useful!
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