The latest articles on DEV Community by Shagun Chadak (@shagunchadak). https://dev.to/shagunchadak https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4147857%2Fee79e4ff-d3cd-4f1b-840d-3b6e7c84be20.png https://dev.to/shagunchadak en Shagun Chadak Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:37:03 +0000 https://dev.to/shagunchadak/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-the-same-services-three-different-names-and-the-gotchas-nobody-1i0j https://dev.to/shagunchadak/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-the-same-services-three-different-names-and-the-gotchas-nobody-1i0j <p>AWS calls it <strong>Kinesis</strong>. Azure calls it <strong>Event Hubs</strong>. Google calls it <strong>Pub/Sub</strong>.</p> <p>Same thing. Three names. And you're googling it <em>again</em>.</p> <p>So I built a translator for the cloud 👉 <a href="https://www.cloudequiv.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.cloudequiv.com/</a></p> <p>Type any service. Get its name on all three clouds, plus what's actually different. Free, no sign-up.</p> <p>🖥️ <strong>VMs:</strong> EC2 → Virtual Machines → Compute Engine<br> 🪣 <strong>Storage:</strong> S3 → Blob Storage → Cloud Storage<br> ⚡ <strong>Serverless:</strong> Lambda → Functions → Cloud Run functions<br> ☸️ <strong>Kubernetes:</strong> EKS → AKS → GKE<br> 🗄️ <strong>NoSQL:</strong> DynamoDB → Cosmos DB → Firestore</p> <p><em>(AWS → Azure → Google Cloud)</em></p> <p><strong>What else it does:</strong></p> <p>🌍 <strong><a href="https://www.cloudequiv.com/regions" rel="noopener noreferrer">Region translator</a>:</strong> <code>us-east-1</code> = <code>eastus</code> = <code>us-east4</code>. Plus warnings when the "closest" region is in another country.</p> <p>🧩 <strong>Stack translator:</strong> paste <code>EC2, S3, RDS, us-east-1</code> and get your whole Azure or GCP migration map in one click.</p> <p>⚠️ <strong>The gotchas:</strong> AWS warns you <strong>2 minutes</strong> before killing a Spot VM. Azure and Google? <strong>30 seconds</strong>.</p> <p>📝 <strong><a href="https://www.cloudequiv.com/quiz" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quiz</a></strong> for cert prep. <strong><a href="https://www.cloudequiv.com/cheatsheet" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cheat sheet</a></strong> for your desk.</p> <p>186 services. 134 regions. One search box.</p> <p>What's the most confusing cloud name you've run into? 👇</p> aws azure gcp devops