Amazon Web Services Key Terms

Device Farm

Testing service for iOS, Android, and Fire OS apps on tablets and smartphones; includes AWS test scripts; developers can create and use their own; output includes logs, screenshots and performance data - Mobile Equivalent MS Azure Service- Xamarin Test Cloud (front end)

Mobile Analytics

Supports monitoring, and feedback collection for the debugging and analysis of a mobile application service quality. Equivalent MS Azure Service- App Center

Machine Learning

Technique for making a computer produce better results by the extraction of knowledge from data based on algorithms. Leverages massive amounts of data so that computers can act and improve on their own without additional programming. Allows a developer to discover patterns in end- user data through algorithms, construct mathematical models based on these patterns and then create and implement predictive applications. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Azure Machine Learning

Web Application Firewall WAF

A firewall that protects web applications from common web exploits. can be implemented in hardware or software to protect a web server from cross-site scripting attacks Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Web Application Firewall

Simple Email Service (SES)

A cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure SMTP

Cloud9

A cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. Makes it easy for you to quickly run commands Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Container Service

OpsWorks

A configuration management service that uses Chef, an automation platform that treats server configurations as code. Configures and operates applications of all shapes and sizes, and provides templates to create and manage a collection of resources. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Automation

AppStream 2.0

A fully managed application streaming service that provides instant access to their desktop applications from anywhere. It also manages the AWS resources required to host and run your applications, scales, automatically, and provides access to your users on demand. Equivalent MS Azure Service- App Services

AppStream

A fully managed application streaming service that provides users with instant access to their desktop applications from anywhere. Run any Windows apps in the cloud and stream them to phones, tablets, or computers - Application Services Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure RemoteApp

AWS IoT Device Management

A fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure IOT Hub

API Gateway

A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. A turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. Equivalent MS Azure Service- API Management

Elasticsearch

A fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost effectively at scale. You can build, monitor, and troubleshoot your applications using the tools you love, at the scale you need. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Elastic Search

WorkDocs

A fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service. With Amazon WorkDocs, you can easily create, edit, and share content, and because it's stored centrally on AWS, access it from anywhere on any device. An AWS managed enterprise storage and sharing service with feedback capabilities for user collaboration Equivalent MS Azure Service- OneDrive

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

A fully- managed message queuing service for reliable communication among distributed software components and microservices. It also makes it simpler to decouple and scale apps. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Azure Service Bus

Dynamo DB

A globally distributed, multi-model database that natively supports multiple data models: key- value, documents, graphs, and columnar. It provides fast, consistent, scalable, and reliable in the cloud. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Table Storage, Cosmos DB

Cognito

A highly available, global, identity management service for consumer-facing applications that scales to hundreds of millions of identities. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Active Directory

Workspace

A managed, secure Desktop- as-a- Service that allows you to provision either Windows or Linux desktops and quickly scale to provide virtual desktops across the globe. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Virtual Desktop

Amazon Pinpoint

A marketing and analytics service hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud that enables an organization to engage with and track metrics related to its application end users. to drive user engagement in mobile apps.112 Amazon Pinpoint helps you understand user behavior, define which users to target, determine which messages to send, schedule the best time to deliver the messages, and then track the results of your campaign. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Notification Hub

WorkMail

A secure, managed business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email client applications. Business email and calendaring like Gmail, Office365, etc. - Application Services Equivalent MS Azure Service- Office 365

CodeDeploy

A service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. eliminating the need for error-prone manual operations. Equivalent MS Azure Service- DevOps

Config Management

A service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Policy

Polly

A service that turns text into lifelike speech, making it easy to develop applications that use high- quality speech to increase engagement and accessibility. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Bing Speech

Application Discovery Service

A tool that helps an enterprise plan application migrations to the public cloud. After performing discovery and grouping Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Migrate

Data Pipeline

A web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals. Data flowing into an application back-end that is then captured, stored, cleaned, optimized and made available to ask questions about later is said to flow into a ___. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Data Factory

Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the fastest and simplest way to get an application up and running on AWS. Developers can simply upload their application code, and the service automatically handles all of the details, such as resource provisioning, load balancing, Auto Scaling, and monitoring. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Azure app services

AWS Service Catalog

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Service Catalog

AWS Shield

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure DDoS Protection

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Allowing you to use web service interfaces to launch instances with a variety of operating systems, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network's access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Virtual Machines

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Allows users to securely control access to services and resources while offering data security and protection. Create and manage users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny access to aws resources. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Active Directory

CodeStar

Allows you to accelerate application delivery by providing a pre-configured continuous delivery toolchain for developing, building, testing, and deploying your projects Equivalent MS Azure Service- DevOps

Inspector

An automated security assessment service that improves the security and compliance of applications. Automatically assess applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Security Center

Athena

An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Data Lake Analytics

CodePipeline

Automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define. Equivalent MS Azure Service- DevOps

Cloud Search

Azure Cognitive Search a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search functionality into websites or applications Equivalent MS Azure Service- Cognitive Search

QuickSight

BI Tool for analyzing data from Kinesis, RedShift, DynamoDB, flat files (ex. .CSV), and 3rd party source (ex. SalesForce) - Analytics An Amazon Web Services utility that allows a company to create and analyze visualizations of its customers' data. The business intelligence service uses AWS' Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (SPICE) to quickly perform data calculations and create graphs. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Power BI

Redshift

Cloud-based Enterprise fully managed, petabyte-scale service in cloud to create and manage a data warehouse. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Synapse Analytics

xray

Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Monitor

Elasticache

Deploys, operates, and scales known open source compatible in-memory caching. Improves performance of web applications Equivalent MS Azure Service- Cache for Redis

GuardDuty

Detect and investigate advanced attacks on-premises and in the cloud. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Advanced Threat Protection

Direct Connect

Establishes a dedicated, private network connection from a location to the cloud provider (not over the Internet). Equivalent MS Azure Service- Express Route

Mobile Hub

Fast way to build mobile apps, including authentication, data storage, analytics, content delivery, notifications, and back-end logic - Mobile Simplifies the process of building, testing, and monitoring mobile applications that make use of one or more AWS services. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Media Services

CodeBuild

Fully managed build service that supports continuous integration and deployment. Equivalent MS Azure Service- DevOps

Macie

Fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure database security

CloudFront

Global Content Delivery Network(CDN) service from AWS. Delivers audio, video, applications, images, and other files. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Content Delivery Network

Database Migration Service (DMS)

Helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. Remains fully operational during migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on databases. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Migration

AWS Trusted Advisor

Inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations when opportunities may exist to save money, improve system performance or close security gaps. Only checks IAM. Provides analysis of cloud resource configuration and security so subscribers can ensure they're making use of best practices and optimum configurations. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Advisor

Storage Gateway

Integrates on-Premises IT environments with cloud storage. Automates data management and storage, plus supports disaster recovery. Equivalent MS Azure Service- StorSimple

AWS IoT

Is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure IOT

Alexa

Is a virtual assistant AI technology developed by Amazon. Subsidiary of Amazon that does web traffic analysis and maintains list of top 1 million most visited web sites Equivalent MS Azure Service- Cortana

AWS Artifact

Is your go-to, central resource for compliance-related information that matters to you. It provides on-demand access to AWS' security and compliance reports and select online agreements. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Service Trust Platform

Rekognition

Makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications using proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology that requires no machine learning expertise to use. With Amazon Rekognition, you can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos, as well as detect any inappropriate content. You can also search and compare faces. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Azure Face API

kinesis

Makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Stream Analytics Data Lake Analytics Data Lake Store

Rational DataBase Services (RDS)

Managed Relational Database service where resiliency, scale and maintenance are primarily handled by the platform Equivalent MS Azure Service- SQL Database

Elastic Transcoder

Media transcoding in the cloud. This service is designed to be highly scalable, easy to use and a cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert media for multiple uses. convert (or "transcode") media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Media Services

CloudFormation

Provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party application resources in your cloud environment. AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Resource Manager VM extensions Azure Automation

Elastic File System (EFS)

Provides a simple interface to create and configure file systems quickly, and share common files. Can be used with traditional protocols that access files over a network. File storage service for EC2 instances; NFS v4, in preview - Storage Equivalent MS Azure Service-Microsoft Azure files

AWS Migration Hub

Provides a single location to track migration tasks across multiple AWS tools and partner solutions Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Migrate

Directory Services

Provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, and Kerberos/NTLM authentication that are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure AD DS (Azure Active Directory Domain Services)

CloudHSM

Provides security solution and works with other services by providing a way to manage, create, and control encryption keys stored in hardware security modules (HSM). Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Key Vault

Route 53

Scalable DNS and Domain Name Registration - Named after DNS Port - Globally configured - Can set up Public or Private Zones Manage your DNS records using the same credentials, billing, and support contract as your other Azure services Equivalent MS Azure Service- DNS

Certificate Manager

Service that allows customers to create, manage, and consume certificates seamlessly in the cloud. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Key Vault

Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

The industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure HDInSight

Snowball

Used to transfer a large amount of data in and out of the cloud. It uses divides which are secure and transfers a large amount of data Equivalent MS Azure Service- Data Box

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Web Service based object storage. 1 byte to 5 Tb. Unlimited Storage. Stored in Buckets. Names are unique globally. - Storage - Region Storage service which helps users to store/retrieve data. Content distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Azure Blob Storage

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Webservice that makes it easy to setup, operate, and send notifications from the cloud A highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SNS provides topics for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Azure Notification Hub

CodeCommit

a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable Private git code repositories. can store assets (such as documents, source code, and binary files) in the cloud. Equivalent MS Azure Service- DevOps

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

a subset of a public cloud that has highly restricted, secure access Helps the user to monitor a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud. Users can launch the AWS resources Equivalent MS Azure Service- Virtual Network

SMS

an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, large-scale server migrations. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Migration

Cloud Trail

logging/auditing service; records API calls Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments Equivalent MS Azure Service- Monitor

Glacier

low cost secure storage for data archiving and backup can be used for offsite enterprise information archiving, media assets or scientific data. A developer uses a cold data cloud service such as this to move infrequently accessed data to archival storage to save money on storage costs. Equivalent MS Azure Service-Storage archive access tier

AWS Step Functions

makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows Lets you coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows so you can build and update apps quickly. Using Step Functions, you can design and run workflows that stitch together services, such as AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker, into feature-rich applications Equivalent MS Azure Service- Logic Apps

Cloud Watch

monitoring service for AWS resources and your applications A monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers,site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Azure Monitor

Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

task coordination and state management service for cloud applications • 12 month Timer • Differs from SQS in that it can be performed by human actions rather than automated computer action • Can be used in warehouses and distribution systems • Ensures task is only assigned once and never duplicated • Delivered once and only once Serverless technology for connecting apps, data and devices anywhere, whether on-premises or in the cloud for large ecosystems of SaaS and cloud-based connectors. Equivalent MS Azure Service- Logic Apps