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?

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Which European cloud are you comparing?

All Scaleway OVHcloud StackIT IONOS Hetzner

Service	AWS US	Azure US	GCP US	Scaleway FR	OVHcloud FR	StackIT DE	IONOS DE	Hetzner DE
Virtual Machines	EC2	Virtual Machines	Compute Engine	Instances	Public Cloud Instances	Compute Engine	Compute Engine	Cloud Servers
Serverless Functions	Lambda	Azure Functions	Cloud Functions	Serverless Functions	—	—	—	—
Managed Containers	ECS	Container Instances	Cloud Run	Serverless Containers	—	—	—	—
Managed Kubernetes	EKS	AKS	GKE	Kubernetes Kapsule	Managed Kubernetes Service	Kubernetes Engine	Managed Kubernetes	—
Object Storage	S3	Blob Storage	Cloud Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage
Managed Relational Database	RDS	Azure SQL / DB for OSS	Cloud SQL	Managed Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL	Managed Databases	PostgreSQL Flex	DBaaS PostgreSQL	—
Key-Value Database	DynamoDB	Cosmos DB	Bigtable	—	—	—	—	—
Document Database	DocumentDB	Cosmos DB for MongoDB	Firestore	Managed MongoDB	Managed MongoDB	MongoDB Flex	DBaaS MongoDB	—
Search Database	OpenSearch Service	AI Search	—	—	Managed OpenSearch	OpenSearch	—	—
Data Warehouse	Redshift	Synapse Analytics	BigQuery	—	Data Platform	—	—	—
In-Memory Cache	ElastiCache	Cache for Redis	Memorystore	Managed Databases for Redis	Managed Databases for Valkey	Redis	In-Memory DB	—
AI Model Inference	Bedrock	Azure OpenAI Service	Vertex AI	Generative APIs	AI Endpoints	AI Model Serving	AI Model Hub	—
Load Balancer	Elastic Load Balancing	Load Balancer	Cloud Load Balancing	Load Balancers	Load Balancer	Load Balancer	Network Load Balancer	Load Balancers
Web Application Firewall and DDoS Protection	WAF / Shield	Web Application Firewall	Cloud Armor	Edge Services (WAF)	Anti-DDoS Infrastructure	DDoS Protection (included)	DDoS Protection (included)	DDoS Protection (included)
Virtual Private Cloud	VPC	Virtual Network (VNet)	VPC Network	Private Network	Private Network (vRack)	Virtual Network	Private LAN	Networks
Content Delivery Network	CloudFront	Front Door / CDN	Cloud CDN	Edge Services	CDN Infrastructure	Content Delivery Network	Content Delivery Network	—
Dedicated Network Connection	Direct Connect	ExpressRoute	Cloud Interconnect	InterLink	OVHcloud Connect	Direct Connect	Cross-Connect	—
Monitoring and Logging	CloudWatch	Azure Monitor	Cloud Monitoring	Cockpit	Logs Data Platform	Observability	Monitoring Service	—
Identity and Access Management	IAM	Microsoft Entra ID	IAM	IAM	IAM	Identity Management	Identity & Access Management	—
Secrets and Key Management	Secrets Manager / KMS	Key Vault	Secret Manager	Secret Manager, Key Manager	Key Management Service	KMS	—	—
Message Queue	SQS	Service Bus / Queues	Cloud Pub/Sub	Queues	—	RabbitMQ	Event Streams for Apache Kafka	—
EU Regions	8 EU regions	12+ EU regions	11 EU regions	3 regions (FR, NL, PL)	6 EU datacentres	2 regions (DE)	4 EU datacentres	3 EU locations

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

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