Comparing Services: Azure vs Google Cloud

This article aims to provide insights into the comparison between Microsoft Azure services and Google Cloud. (Please note that Google Cloud was formerly known as the Google Cloud Platform, or GCP.) Whether you’re strategizing a multi-cloud approach involving Azure and Google Cloud or contemplating a migration to Azure, this article allows you to assess the IT capabilities across various technology categories.

It’s important to mention that the comparison focuses on services that have close equivalences; it doesn’t cover every single Google Cloud or Azure service, and feature parity may vary among matched services.

Marketplace

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Google Cloud Marketplace	Azure Marketplace	Easy-to-deploy and automatically configured third-party applications, including single virtual machine or multiple virtual machine solutions.

Data platform

Database

Type	Google Cloud service	Azure service	Azure service description
Relational database	Cloud SQL – SQL Server	Azure SQL family Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL Server on Azure VM Azure SQL Edge	Azure SQL family of SQL Server database engine products in the cloud Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine Azure SQL Managed Instance is the intelligent, scalable cloud database service that combines the broadest SQL Server database engine compatibility with all the benefits of a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service SQL Server IaaS deployed on Azure Windows or Linux VM Azure SQL Edge is an optimized relational database engine geared for IoT and edge deployments
	Cloud SQL MySQL & PostgreSQL	Azure Database for MySQL (Single & Flexible Server) Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Single & Flexible Server)	Managed relational database service where resiliency, security, scale, and maintenance are primarily handled by the platform
Horizontally scalable relational database	Cloud Spanner	Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL	A globally-distributed database system that limitlessly scales horizontally. Is multi-modal — key-value, graph, and document data). Supports multiple APIs: SQL, JavaScript, Gremlin, MongoDB, and Azure Table storage. Compute and storage can be scaled independently
		Azure PostgreSQL Hyperscale (Citus)	Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a fully managed database-as-a-service based on the open-source Postgres relational database engine. The Hyperscale (Citus) deployment option scales queries across multiple machines using sharding, to serve applications that require greater scale and performance
NoSQL	Cloud Bigtable	Azure Table storage	A highly scalable NoSQL key-value store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets. Store semi-structured data that’s highly available. Supporting flexible data schema and OData-based queries
	Cloud Firestore	Azure Cosmos DB	Globally distributed, multi-model database that natively supports multiple data models: key-value, documents, graphs, and columnar
	Firebase Realtime Database	Azure Cosmos DB change feed	Change feed in Azure Cosmos DB is a persistent record of changes to a container in the order they occur. Change feed works by listening to an Azure Cosmos DB container for any changes. It then outputs the sorted list of documents that were changed in the order in which they were modified. The persisted changes can be processed asynchronously and incrementally, and the output can be distributed across one or more consumers for parallel processing
In-memory	Cloud Memorystore	Azure Cache for Redis	A secure data cache and messaging broker that provides high throughput and low-latency access to data for applications

Data warehouse

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
BigQuery	Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Server Big Data Clusters Azure Databricks	Cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that uses Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data. Allow you to deploy scalable clusters of SQL Server, Spark, and HDFS containers running on Kubernetes. These components are running side by side to enable you to read, write, and process big data from Transact-SQL or Spark, allowing you to easily combine and analyze your high-value relational data with high-volume big data.

Data orchestration and ETL

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Data Fusion	Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics	Processes and moves data between different compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources at specified intervals. Create, schedule, orchestrate, and manage data pipelines.

Big data and analytics

Big data processing

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Dataproc	Azure HDInsight Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Databricks	Managed Apache Spark-based analytics platform.

Analytics and visualization

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Dataflow	Azure Databricks	Managed platform for streaming batch data based on Open Source Apache products.
Data Studio Looker	Power BI	Business intelligence tools that build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and develop business insights from data.
Cloud Search	Azure Search	Delivers full-text search and related search analytics and capabilities.
BigQuery	SQL Server Analysis Services	Provides a serverless non-cloud interactive query service that uses standard SQL for analyzing databases.

Time series & IOT data

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
BigQuery	Azure Data Explorer Azure Time Series Insights Azure Cosmos DB	Fully managed, low latency, and distributed big data analytics platform that runs complex queries across petabytes of data. Highly optimized for log and time series data. Open and scalable end-to-end IoT analytics service. Collect, process, store, query, and visualize data at Internet of Things (IoT) scale–data that’s highly contextualized and optimized for time series.

AI and machine learning

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Vertex AI	Azure Machine Learning	A cloud service to train, deploy, automate, and manage machine learning models.
TensorFlow	ML.NET	ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for both machine learning & AI.
TensorFlow	ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange)	ONNX is an open format built to represent machine learning models that facilitates maximum compatibility and increased inference performance.
Vision AI	Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision	Use visual data processing to label content, from objects to concepts, extract printed and handwritten text, recognize familiar subjects like brands and landmarks, and moderate content. No machine learning expertise is required.
Natural Language AI	Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics	Cloud-based services that provides advanced natural language processing over raw text, and includes four main functions: sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, and named entity recognition.
Natural Language AI	Azure Cognitive Services Language Understanding (LUIS)	A machine learning-based service to build natural language understanding into apps, bots, and IoT devices. Quickly create enterprise-ready, custom models that continuously improve.
Speech-to-Text	Azure Cognitive Services Speech To Text	Swiftly convert audio into text from a variety of sources. Customize models to overcome common speech recognition barriers, such as unique vocabularies, speaking styles, or background noise.
AutoML Tables – Structured Data	Azure ML – Automated Machine Learning	Empower professional and non-professional data scientists to build machine learning models rapidly. Automate time-consuming and iterative tasks of model development using breakthrough research-and accelerate time to market. Available in Azure Machine learning, Power BI, ML.NET & Visual Studio.
AutoML Tables – Structured Data	ML.NET Model Builder	ML.NET Model Builder provides an easy to understand visual interface to build, train, and deploy custom machine learning models. Prior machine learning expertise is not required. Model Builder supports AutoML, which automatically explores different machine learning algorithms and settings to help you find the one that best suits your scenario.
AutoML Vision	Azure Cognitive Services Custom Vision	Customize and embed state-of-the-art computer vision for specific domains. Build frictionless customer experiences, optimize manufacturing processes, accelerate digital marketing campaigns-and more. No machine learning expertise is required.
AutoML Video Intelligence	Azure Video Analyzer	Easily extract insights from your videos and quickly enrich your applications to enhance discovery and engagement.
Dialogflow	Azure Cognitive Services QnA Maker	Build, train and publish a sophisticated bot using FAQ pages, support websites, product manuals, SharePoint documents or editorial content through an easy-to-use UI or via REST APIs.
AI Platform Notebooks	Azure Notebooks	Develop and run code from anywhere with Jupyter notebooks on Azure.
Deep Learning VM Image	Data Science Virtual Machines	Pre-Configured environments in the cloud for Data Science and AI Development.
Deep Learning Containers	GPU support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Graphical processing units (GPUs) are often used for compute-intensive workloads such as graphics and visualization workloads. AKS supports the creation of GPU-enabled node pools to run these compute-intensive workloads in Kubernetes.
Data Labeling Service	Azure ML – Data Labeling	A central place to create, manage, and monitor labeling projects (public preview). Use it to coordinate data, labels, and team members to efficiently manage labeling tasks. Machine Learning supports image classification, either multi-label or multi-class, and object identification with bounded boxes.
AI Platform Training	Azure ML – Compute Targets	Designated compute resource/environment where you run your training script or host your service deployment. This location may be your local machine or a cloud-based compute resource. Using compute targets make it easy for you to later change your compute environment without having to change your code.
AI Platform Predictions	Azure ML – Deployments	Deploy your machine learning model as a web service in the Azure cloud or to Azure IoT Edge devices. Leverage serverless Azure Functions for model inference for dynamic scale.
Continuous Evaluation	Azure ML – Data Drift	Monitor for data drift between the training dataset and inference data of a deployed model. In the context of machine learning, trained machine learning models may experience degraded prediction performance because of drift. With Azure Machine Learning, you can monitor data drift and the service can send an email alert to you when drift is detected.
What-If Tool	Azure ML – Model Interpretability	Ensure machine learning model compliance with company policies, industry standards, and government regulations.
Cloud TPU	Azure ML – FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)	FPGAs contain an array of programmable logic blocks, and a hierarchy of reconfigurable interconnects. The interconnects allow these blocks to be configured in various ways after manufacturing. Compared to other chips, FPGAs provide a combination of programmability and performance.
Kubeflow	Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)	MLOps, or DevOps for machine learning, enables data science and IT teams to collaborate and increase the pace of model development and deployment via monitoring, validation, and governance of machine learning models.
Dialogflow	Microsoft Bot Framework	Build and connect intelligent bots that interact with your users using text/SMS, Skype, Teams, Slack, Microsoft 365 mail, Twitter, and other popular services.

Data catalog & governance

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Data Catalog	Azure Purview	Azure Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data.

Compute

Virtual servers

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Compute Engine	Azure Virtual Machines	Virtual servers allow users to deploy, manage, and maintain OS and server software. Instance types provide combinations of CPU/RAM. Users pay for what they use with the flexibility to change sizes.
Sole-tenant nodes	Azure Dedicated Host	Host your VMs on hardware that’s dedicated only to your project.
Batch	Azure Batch	Run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing applications efficiently in the cloud.
Compute Engine Autoscaler Compute Engine managed instance groups	Azure virtual machine scale sets	Allows you to automatically change the number of VM instances. You set defined metric and thresholds that determine if the platform adds or removes instances.
Cloud GPUs	GPU Optimized VMs	GPU-optimized VM sizes are specialized virtual machines that are available with single, multiple, or fractional GPUs. The sizes are designed for compute-intensive, graphics-intensive, and visualization workloads.
VMware Engine	Azure VMware Solution	Redeploy and extend your VMware-based enterprise workloads to Azure with Azure VMware Solution. Seamlessly move VMware-based workloads from your datacenter to Azure and integrate your VMware environment with Azure. Keep managing your existing environments with the same VMware tools that you already know, while you modernize your applications with Azure native services. Azure VMware Solution is a Microsoft service that is verified by VMware, and it runs on Azure infrastructure.

Containers and container orchestrators

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Run	Azure Container Apps	Azure Container Apps is the fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to provision any virtual machines or adopt a higher-level orchestration service.
Artifact Registry (beta) Container Registry	Azure Container Registry	Allows customers to store Docker formatted images. Used to create all types of container deployments on Azure.
Kubernetes Engine (GKE)	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Deploy orchestrated containerized applications with Kubernetes. Simplify cluster management and monitoring through automatic upgrades and a built-in operations console. See AKS solution journey.
Kubernetes Engine Monitoring	Azure Monitor container insights	Azure Monitor container insights is a feature designed to monitor the performance of container workloads deployed to: Managed Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS); Self-managed Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure using AKS Engine; Azure Container Instances, Self-managed Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Stack or on-premises; or Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Anthos Service Mesh	Open Service Mesh (OSM)	It is a lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh. OSM takes a simple approach for users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments

Functions

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Functions	Azure Functions	Integrate systems and run backend processes in response to events or schedules without provisioning or managing servers.

DevOps and application monitoring

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Operations (formerly Stackdriver)	Azure Monitor	Maximizes the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources on which they depend.
Cloud Trace	Azure Monitor	Maximizes the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources on which they depend.
Cloud Debugger	Azure Monitor	Maximizes the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources on which they depend.
Cloud Profiler	Azure Monitor	Maximizes the availability and performance of your applications and services by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources on which they depend.
Cloud Source Repositories	Azure Repos, GitHub Repos	A cloud service for collaborating on code development.
Cloud Build	Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions	Fully managed build service that supports continuous integration and deployment.
Artifact Registry	Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packages	Add fully integrated package management to your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with a single click. Create and share Maven, npm, NuGet, and Python package feeds from public and private sources with teams of any size.
Cloud Developer Tools (including Cloud Code)	Azure Developer Tools	Collection of tools for building, debugging, deploying, diagnosing, and managing multiplatform scalable apps and services.
Gcloud SDK	Azure CLI	The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available across Azure services and is designed to get you working quickly with Azure, with an emphasis on automation.
Cloud Shell	Azure Cloud Shell	Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.
PowerShell on Google Cloud	Azure PowerShell	Azure PowerShell is a set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line. Azure PowerShell is designed to make it easy to learn and get started with, but provides powerful features for automation. Written in .NET Standard, Azure PowerShell works with PowerShell 5.1 on Windows, and PowerShell 6.x and higher on all platforms.
Cloud Deployment Manager	Azure Automation	Delivers a cloud-based automation and configuration service that supports consistent management across your Azure and non-Azure environments. It comprises process automation, configuration management, update management, shared capabilities, and heterogeneous features. Automation gives you complete control during deployment, operations, and decommissioning of workloads and resources.
Cloud Deployment Manager	Azure Resource Manager	Provides a way for users to automate the manual, long-running, error-prone, and frequently repeated IT tasks.

Internet of things (IoT)

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud IoT Core	Azure IoT Hub,Azure Event Hubs	A cloud gateway for managing bidirectional communication with billions of IoT devices, securely and at scale.
Cloud Pub/Sub	Azure Stream Analytics,HDInsight Kafka	Process and route streaming data to a subsequent processing engine or to a storage or database platform.
Edge TPU	Azure IoT Edge	Deploy cloud intelligence directly on IoT devices to run in on-premises scenarios.

Management

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Billing	Azure Billing API	Services to help generate, monitor, forecast, and share billing data for resource usage by time, organization, or product resources.
Cloud Console	Azure portal	A unified management console that simplifies building, deploying, and operating your cloud resources.
Operations (formerly Stackdriver)	Azure Monitor	Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Cost Management	Azure Cost Management	Azure Cost Management helps you understand your Azure invoice, manage your billing account and subscriptions, control Azure spending, and optimize resource use.

Messaging and eventing

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Pub/Sub	Azure Service Bus	Supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging.
Cloud Pub/Sub	Azure Event Grid	A fully managed event routing service that allows for uniform event consumption using a publish/subscribe model.
Cloud Pub/Sub	Azure Event Hubs	A real-time data ingestion and microbatching service used to build dynamic data pipelines and integrates with other Azure services.

Networking

Area	Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud virtual networking	Virtual Private Network (VPC)	Azure Virtual Network (Vnet)	Provides an isolated, private environment in the cloud. Users have control over their virtual networking environment, including selection of their own IP address range, adding/updating address ranges, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
DNS management	Cloud DNS	Azure DNS	Manage your DNS records using the same credentials that are used for billing and support contract as your other Azure services
	Cloud DNS	Azure Traffic Manager	Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness.
	Internal DNS	Azure Private DNS	Manages and resolves domain names in the virtual network, without the need to configure a custom DNS solution, and it provides a naming resolution for virtual machines (VMs) within a virtual network and any connected virtual networks.
Hybrid Connectivity	Cloud Interconnect	Azure ExpressRoute	Establishes a private network connection from a location to the cloud provider (not over the Internet).
	Cloud VPN Gateway	Azure Virtual Network Gateway	Connects Azure virtual networks to other Azure virtual networks, or customer on-premises networks (site-to-site). Allows end users to connect to Azure services through VPN tunneling (point-to-site).
	Cloud VPN Gateway	Azure Virtual WAN	Azure virtual WAN simplifies large-scale branch connectivity with VPN and ExpressRoute.
	Cloud router	Azure Virtual Network Gateway	Enables dynamic routes exchange using BGP.
Load balancing	Network Load Balancing	Azure Load Balancer	Azure Load Balancer load-balances traffic at layer 4 (all TCP or UDP).
	Global load balancing	Azure Front door	Azure front door enables global load balancing across regions using a single anycast IP.
	Global load balancing	Azure Application Gateway	Application Gateway is a layer 7 load balancer. IT takes backends with any IP that is reachable. It supports SSL termination, cookie-based session affinity, and round robin for load-balancing traffic.
	Global load balancing	Azure Traffic Manager	Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness.
Content delivery network	Cloud CDN	Azure CDN	A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users.
Firewall	Firewall rules	Application security groups	Azure Application security groups allow you to group virtual machines and define network security policies based on those groups.
	Firewall rules	Network Security groups	Azure network security group filters network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network.
	Firewall rules	Azure Firewall	Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It’s a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability.
Web Application Firewall	Cloud Armor	Application Gateway – Web Application Firewall	Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.
	Cloud Armor	Front door – Azure Web Application Firewall	Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door provides centralized protection for your web applications.
	Cloud Armor	CDN – Azure Web Application Firewall	Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Microsoft provides centralized protection for your web content.
NAT Gateway	Cloud NAT	Azure NAT Gateway	NAT Gateway (network address translation) provides outbound NAT translations for internet connectivity for virtual networks.
Private Connectivity to PaaS	Private Service Connect	Azure Private Link	Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS Services and Azure hosted customer-owned/partner services over a private endpoint in your virtual network.
Telemetry	VPC Flow logs	NSG Flow logs	Network security group (NSG) flow logs are a feature of Network Watcher that allows you to view information about ingress and egress IP traffic through an NSG.
	Firewall Rules Logging	NSG Flow logs	Network security group (NSG) flow logs are a feature of Network Watcher that allows you to view information about ingress and egress IP traffic through an NSG.
	Operations (formerly Stackdriver)	Azure Monitor	Azure Monitor delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. Log queries help you maximize the value of the data collected in Azure Monitor Logs.
	Network Intelligence Center	Azure Network Watcher	Azure Network Watcher provides tools to monitor, diagnose, view metrics, and enable or disable logs for resources in an Azure virtual network.
Other Connectivity Options	S2S,P2S	Direct Interconnect,Partner Interconnect,Carrier Peering	Point to Site lets you create a secure connection to your virtual network from an individual client computer. Site to Site is a connection between two or more networks, such as a corporate network and a branch office network.

Security and identity

Area	Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Authentication and authorization	Cloud Identity	Microsoft Entra ID	The Microsoft Entra enterprise identity service provides single sign-on and multifactor authentication, which enable the central management of users/groups and external identities federation.
	Identity platform	Azure Active Directory B2C	A highly available and global identity management service for consumer-facing applications, which scales to hundreds of millions of identities. Manage customer, consumer, and citizen access to your business-to-consumer (B2C) applications.
Multifactor authentication	Multifactor authentication	Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication	Safeguard access to data and applications, while meeting user demand for a simple sign-in process.
RBAC	Identity and Access Management	Azure role-based access control	Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to.
ABAC	Identity and Access Management	Azure attribute-based access control	Azure attribute-based access control (Azure ABAC) is an authorization system that defines access, based on attributes that are associated with security principals, resources, and environment.
Zero trust	BeyondCorp Enterprise	Microsoft Entra Conditional Access	Conditional Access is the tool used by Microsoft Entra ID to bring signals together, to make decisions, and to enforce organizational policies.
Resource management	Resource Manager	Azure Resource Manager	Provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account, like access control, locks, and tags, to secure and organize your resources after deployment.
Encryption	Cloud KMS, Secret Manager	Azure Key Vault	Provides a security solution and works with other services by allowing you to manage, create, and control encryption keys that are stored in hardware security modules (HSM).
Data-at-rest encryption	Encryption at rest	Azure Storage Service Encryption – encryption by default	Azure Storage Service Encryption helps you protect and safeguard your data and meet your organizational security and compliance commitments.
Data in-use	Confidential Computing	Azure Confidential Computing	Encrypt data in-use.
Hardware security module (HSM)	Cloud HSM	Azure Dedicated HSM	Azure service that provides cryptographic key storage in Azure, to host encryption keys and perform cryptographic operations in a high-availabilty service of FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified hardware security modules (HSMs).
Data loss prevention (DLP)	Cloud Data Loss Prevention	Azure Information Protection	Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect documents and emails by applying labels to content.
Security	Security Command Center, Web Security Scanner	Microsoft Defender for Cloud	An automated security assessment service that improves the security and compliance of applications. Automatically assess applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices.
Threat detection	Event Threat Detection	Azure Advanced Threat Protection	Detect and investigate advanced attacks on-premises and in the cloud.
SIEM	Chronicle	Microsoft Sentinel	A cloud-native security information and event manager (SIEM) platform that uses built-in AI to help analyze large volumes of data from all sources, including users, applications, servers, and devices that are running on-premises or in any cloud.
Container security	Container Security	Container Security in Microsoft Defender for Cloud	Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the Azure-native solution for securing your containers.
	Artifact Registry	Azure Container Registry	A managed, private Docker registry service that’s based on the open-source Docker Registry 2.0. Create and maintain Azure container registries to store and manage your private Docker container images and related artifacts that allow you to only deploy trusted containers.
	Container Analysis	Microsoft Defender for container registries	Perform vulnerability scans on all container images when they’re pushed to the registry, imported into the registry, or pulled within the last 30 days.

Storage

Object storage

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Cloud Storage Cloud Storage for Firebase	Azure Blob storage	Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics.

Block storage

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Persistant Disk Local SSD	Azure managed disks	SSD storage optimized for I/O intensive read/write operations. For use as high-performance Azure virtual machine storage.

File storage

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Filestore	Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files	File based storage and hosted NetApp Appliance Storage.
Google Drive	OneDrive For business	Cloud storage and file sharing solution for businesses to store, access, and share files anytime and anywhere.

Bulk data transfer

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Transfer Appliance	Azure Import/Export	A data transport solution that uses secure disks and appliances to transfer large amounts of data. Also offers data protection during transit.
Transfer Appliance	Azure Data Box	Petabyte- to exabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure data storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from Azure.

Application services

Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
App Engine	Azure App Service	Managed hosting platform providing easy to use services for deploying and scaling web applications and services.
Apigee	Azure API Management	A turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers.

Miscellaneous

Area	Google Cloud service	Azure service	Description
Workflow	Composer	Azure Logic Apps	Serverless technology for connecting apps, data and devices anywhere, whether on-premises or in the cloud for large ecosystems of SaaS and cloud-based connectors.
Enterprise application services	G Suite	Microsoft 365	Fully integrated Cloud service providing communications, email, document management in the cloud and available on a wide variety of devices.
Gaming	Game Servers	Azure PlayFab	Managed services for hosting dedicated game servers.
Hybrid	Anthos	Azure Arc	For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multi-cloud, Azure Arc enables deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure.
Blockchain	Digital Asset	Azure Confidential Ledger	Tamperproof, unstructured data store hosted in trusted execution environments and backed by cryptographically verifiable evidence.
Monitoring	Cloud Monitoring	Application Insights	Service that provides visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered applications.
Logging	Cloud Logging	Log Analytics	Service for real-time log management and analysis.

Migration tools

Area	Google Cloud service	Azure Service	Description
App migration to containers	Migrate for Anthos	Azure Migrate: App Containerization tool	Modernize your application by migrating it to AKS or App Services containers.
Migration of virtual machines	Migrate for Compute Engine	Azure Migrate: Server Migration tool	Migrate servers from anywhere to Azure.
VMware migration	Google Cloud VMware Engine	Azure VMware Solution	Move or extend on-premises VMware environments to Azure.
Migration of databases	Database Migration Service	Azure Database Migration Service	Fully managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms with minimal downtime.
Migration programs	Google Cloud Rapid Assessment & Migration Program (RAMP)	Azure Migration and Modernization Program	Learn how to move your apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure using a proven cloud migration and modernization approach.
Server assessment		Movere	Increases business intelligence by accurately presenting entire IT environments within a single day.
Database assessment		Data Migration Assistant	It helps pinpoint potential problems blocking migration. It identifies unsupported features, new features that can benefit you after migration, and the right path for database migration.
Web app assessment and migration		Web app migration assistant	Assess on-premises web apps and migrate them to Azure.