GCP Services Table¶
https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws#service_comparisons
| Service Category | Service | Google Cloud | AWS | Description/Use Cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | IaaS | Compute Engine | Amazon EC2 | Virtual Machine in the Cloud |
| PaaS | App Engine | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | ||
| FaaS | Cloud Functions | AWS Lambda | Serverless application back ends, WebHook integrations, Serverless mobile back ends, Serverless IoT back ends, Real-time data processing systems, Real-time File Processing, Real-time Stream Processing, Intelligent applications (Virtual Assitants and Conversational Experiences, Video and Image analysis, Sentiment Analysis) | |
| Containers | CaaS | Google Kubernetes Engine | Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service | Container Orchestration, Microservices |
| Containers without Infrastucture | Cloud Run | AWS Fargate | Serverless Containers, Serverless, WebApp Backend, REST API | |
| Container Registry | Container Registry | Amazon Elastic Container Registry | ||
| Storage | Object Storage | Cloud Storage | Amazon S3 | Data Lake |
| Block Storage | Persistent Disk | Amazon EBS | ||
| Archival Storage | Cloud Storage Archive | Amazon Glacier | ||
| File Storage | Firestore | Amazon EFS | ||
| In-memory data store | Memorystore | Amazon Elastichache for Redis | ||
| Database | RDBMS | Cloud SQL | Amazon RDS | |
| RDBMS | Cloud Spanner | Amazon Aurora | ||
| NoSQL: Key-value | Firestore, Cloud BigTable | Amazon DynamoDB | IoT Data, AdTech | |
| NoSQL: Indexed | Firestore | Amazon SimpleDB | ||
| Data Analytics | Data Warehouse | BigQuery | Amazon Redshift | |
| Query Service | BigQuery | Amazon Athena | ||
| Batch Data Processing | Dataproc | Amazon Elastic MapReduce | ||
| Batch Data Processing | Dataflow | AWS Batch | ||
| Stream Data Processing | Dataflow | Amazon Kinesis | ||
| Stream Data Ingest | Pub/Sub | Amazon Kinesis | ||
| Messaging | Pub/Sub | Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS | ||
| Networking | Virtual Networks | Virtual Private Cloud | Amazon Virtual Private Cloud | |
| Load Balancer | Cloud Load Balancing | Elastic Load Balancer | ||
| Dedicated Interconnect | Cloud Interconnect | AWS Direct Connect | ||
| Domains and DNS | Google Domains, Cloud DNS | Amazon Route 53 | ||
| CDN | Cloud CDN | Amazon CloudFront | ||
| DDos Firewall | Google Cloud Armor | AWS Shield, AWS WAF | ||
| Logging | Cloud Logging | Amazon CloudWatch Logs | ||
| Audit Logging | Cloud Audit Logs | AWS CloudTrails | ||
| Debugging | Cloud Debugger | AWS X-Ray | ||
| Performance Tracing | Cloud Trace | AWS X-Ray | ||
| Management Tools | Deployment | Cloud Deployment Manager | AWS CloudFormation | |
| Cost Management | Cost Management | AWS Budgets | ||
| Security & Identity | IAM | Cloud Identity and Access Managment | Amazon Identity and Access Management | |
| Secret Management | Secret Manager | AWS Secrets Manager | ||
| Encrypted Keys | Cloud Key Management Service | AWS Key Management Service | ||
| Resource Monitoring | Cloud Asset Inventory | AWS Config | ||
| Vulnerability Scanning | Web Security Scanner | Amazon Inspector | ||
| Threat Detection | Event Threat Detection | Amazon GuardDuty | ||
| Microsoft Active Directory | Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory | AWS Directory Service |