Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Google Cloud Platform (GCP) explained in simple English
This guide is only representative from my point of view and it may not be accurate and you should go on the official AWS & GCP websites for accurate and detailed information. It’s initially inspired by AWS in simple English and GCP for AWS professionals. The idea is to compare both services, give simple one-line explanation and examples with other software that might have similiar capabilities. Comment below for suggestions.
| Category | Service | AWS | GCP | Description | It’s like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | IaaS | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Google Compute Engine | Type-1 virtual servers | VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer |
| PaaS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Google App Engine | Running your app on a platform | Heroku, BlueMix, Modulus | |
| Containers | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Container Service | Google Container Engine | Run your app inside container instead of server | Docker | |
| Compute Service | Amazon Lambda | Google Cloud Functions | Run event-driven code | ||
| Network | Load Balancer | Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) | Google Compute Engine Load Balancer | Standard load balancing | Zen Load Balancer, HaProxy, |
| Peering | Direct Connect | Google Cloud Interconnect | Dedicated connection | DC++ | |
| DNS | AWS Route 53 | Google Cloud DNS | Managed DNS Service | BIND | |
| Storage | Object Storage | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) | Google Cloud Storage | Managed Block Storage with API access | OpenStack Block Storage, Ceph Block Storage |
| Block Storage | Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Google Compute Engine Persistent Disks | |||
| Cold Storage | Amazon Glacier | Google Cloud Storage Nearline | |||
| File Storage | Amazon Elastic File System | ZFS / Avere | |||
| Database | RDBMS | Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) | Google Cloud SQL | Relational database | MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL |
| NoSQL: Key-value | Amazon DynamoDB | Google Cloud Bigtable | Key-value NoSQL database | Redis, CouchDB | |
| NoSQL: Indexed | Amazon SimpleDB | Google Cloud Datastore | Indexed NoSQL database | Apache Cassandra, MongoDB | |
| Big Data & Analytics | Batch Data Processing | Amazon Elastic Map Reduce | Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Dataflow | ||
| Stream Data Processing | Amazon Kinesis | Google Cloud Dataflow | |||
| Stream Data Ingest | Amazon Kinesis | Google Cloud Pub/Sub | |||
| Analytics | Amazon Redshift | Google BigQuery | |||
| Application Services | Messaging | Amazon Simple Notification Service | Google Cloud Pub/Sub | ||
| Data Sync | Amazon Cognito | Google Firebase | |||
| Mobile Backend | Amazon Cognito | Google Cloud Endpoints, Google Firebase | |||
| Management Services | Monitoring | Amazon CloudWatch | Google Cloud Monitoring | ||
| Deployment | AWS CloudFormation | Google Cloud Deployment Manager | |||
| Monitoring | AWS CloudFormation | Google Cloud Deployment Manager | |||
| Monitoring | AWS CloudFormation | ||||
| Security | SSL | Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) | Managed SSL Certificates | Let’s encrypt |
