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Shagun Chadak
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AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: the same services, three different names (and the gotchas nobody warns you about)

AWS calls it Kinesis. Azure calls it Event Hubs. Google calls it Pub/Sub.

Same thing. Three names. And you're googling it again.

So I built a translator for the cloud πŸ‘‰ https://www.cloudequiv.com/

Type any service. Get its name on all three clouds, plus what's actually different. Free, no sign-up.

πŸ–₯️ VMs: EC2 β†’ Virtual Machines β†’ Compute Engine
πŸͺ£ Storage: S3 β†’ Blob Storage β†’ Cloud Storage
⚑ Serverless: Lambda β†’ Functions β†’ Cloud Run functions
☸️ Kubernetes: EKS β†’ AKS β†’ GKE
πŸ—„οΈ NoSQL: DynamoDB β†’ Cosmos DB β†’ Firestore

(AWS β†’ Azure β†’ Google Cloud)

What else it does:

🌍 Region translator: us-east-1 = eastus = us-east4. Plus warnings when the "closest" region is in another country.

🧩 Stack translator: paste EC2, S3, RDS, us-east-1 and get your whole Azure or GCP migration map in one click.

⚠️ The gotchas: AWS warns you 2 minutes before killing a Spot VM. Azure and Google? 30 seconds.

πŸ“ Quiz for cert prep. Cheat sheet for your desk.

186 services. 134 regions. One search box.

What's the most confusing cloud name you've run into? πŸ‘‡

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