Cloud Service Mapping

Wondering what the European equivalent of your current cloud service is? See how common AWS, Azure, and GCP services map across OVHcloud, Scaleway, STACKIT, IONOS, and Hetzner, so you can start evaluating your options with confidence.

Which cloud are you using now?

All AWS Azure GCP

Which European cloud are you comparing?

All Scaleway OVHcloud StackIT IONOS Hetzner

Service	AWS US	Azure US	GCP US	StackIT DE
Virtual Machines	EC2	Virtual Machines	Compute Engine	Compute Engine
Serverless Functions	Lambda	Azure Functions	Cloud Functions	—
Managed Containers	ECS	Container Instances	Cloud Run	—
Managed Kubernetes	EKS	AKS	GKE	Kubernetes Engine
Object Storage	S3	Blob Storage	Cloud Storage	Object Storage
Managed Relational Database	RDS	Azure SQL / DB for OSS	Cloud SQL	PostgreSQL Flex
Key-Value Database	DynamoDB	Cosmos DB	Bigtable	—
Document Database	DocumentDB	Cosmos DB for MongoDB	Firestore	MongoDB Flex
Search Database	OpenSearch Service	AI Search	—	OpenSearch
Data Warehouse	Redshift	Synapse Analytics	BigQuery	—
In-Memory Cache	ElastiCache	Cache for Redis	Memorystore	Redis
AI Model Inference	Bedrock	Azure OpenAI Service	Vertex AI	AI Model Serving
Load Balancer	Elastic Load Balancing	Load Balancer	Cloud Load Balancing	Load Balancer
Web Application Firewall and DDoS Protection	WAF / Shield	Web Application Firewall	Cloud Armor	DDoS Protection (included)
Virtual Private Cloud	VPC	Virtual Network (VNet)	VPC Network	Virtual Network
Content Delivery Network	CloudFront	Front Door / CDN	Cloud CDN	Content Delivery Network
Dedicated Network Connection	Direct Connect	ExpressRoute	Cloud Interconnect	Direct Connect
Monitoring and Logging	CloudWatch	Azure Monitor	Cloud Monitoring	Observability
Identity and Access Management	IAM	Microsoft Entra ID	IAM	Identity Management
Secrets and Key Management	Secrets Manager / KMS	Key Vault	Secret Manager	KMS
Message Queue	SQS	Service Bus / Queues	Cloud Pub/Sub	RabbitMQ
EU Regions	8 EU regions	12+ EU regions	11 EU regions	2 regions (DE)

Service names are approximate equivalents. Actual feature parity varies. We help you evaluate the right fit during the audit phase.

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