A Provider-Agnostic Cloud Architecture Reference
If you've ever switched cloud providers (or worked across more than one) you know the pain: every vendor invents its own name for the same fundamental building block. S3 is Blob Storage is Cloud Storage. EKS is AKS is GKE. The architecture is largely the same; the marketing is different.
I got tired of mentally translating, so I built a single-page reference that maps 14 cloud components and 65 distinct types across AWS, Azure, GCP, and the open-source ecosystem.
What's in it
- Compute: VMs, containers, serverless, batch
- Storage: object, block, file, archive
- Networking: VPCs, load balancers, CDNs, DNS, VPN
- Databases: relational, NoSQL, graph, time-series, warehouse, lake
- IAM, Security, Messaging, API Management, Observability, Orchestration, CI/CD, Caching, DR, Cost & Governance
Each type has a one-line description and the canonical equivalent in each provider, with notes on services in transition (e.g. App Mesh retiring Sep 2026, GCP Cloud Source Repositories closed to new customers).
Tech
- Single self-contained HTML file
- No build step, no dependencies (except Google Fonts)
- Live search + provider filtering
- Nord theme, responsive, print-friendly
- Hosted on GitHub Pages
- Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Link
👉 https://jocerfranquiz.github.io/cloud-architecture-distilled/
Feedback wanted
If you spot a wrong mapping, a missing component, or a service that's been deprecated, drop a comment or open an issue. I'd like to keep this current.
What would you add?
Top comments (1)
btw, the whole webpage is a self contained html. You can download it here github.com/jocerfranquiz/cloud-arc...