Top/Common Azure Services Compare to AWS

Hi, Welcome back. Today I thought let's spend some time to find top/common Azure cloud services and tools which probably all cloud engineer use for hosting and code development.

Here I also provided the reference of AWS services which do similar job with AWS cloud. So that if someone like me more experienced in AWS will be able to relate very quick and easily.

Top Azure Cloud services

• App Services Web Apps  : for web application hosting, similar to AWS EC2
• App Services API Apps  : for rest api hosting, similar to AWS EC2
• App Services Mobile Apps  : for mobile app hosting, similar to AWS EC2
• Azure Storage  :  storage location, similar to AWS S3
• Application Insights  :  monitor real time application health, similar to AWS cloud watch
• Azure DevOps  :  CI/CD and code repository management, similar to AWS code build/commit/pipeline.
• Azure Logic App  :  define multiple work flow to perform your job based on your input, similar to AWS step function.
• Azure Function App :  serverless function, similar to AWS lambda function.
• Azure Key Vault  : store/manager your keys, similar to AWS KMS and SecretManager.
• Azure Cosmos DB : no sql db, similar to AWS dynamo db.
• Azure Redis Cache : data caching.
• DNS : for routing of your URLs to multiple servers, similar to AWS Route 53.
• Application Gateway : for load balancing, similar to AWS ELS, ALB, NLB.
• Virtual Network : for defining network for your infrastructure, similar to AWS VPC.

Tools in Azure for developer

• Microsoft Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code : for writing code and even same we use with AWS also.
• Azure SDK : code tool to communicate with Azure services, similar to AWS SDK.
• Azure CLI : command line to run Azure command, similar to AWS CLI
• YMA : defining your deployments instructions and even same used with AWS.