What are the Azure equivalents of common AWS services (EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, IAM, Lambda)?
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Quick Answer
EC2 → Azure Virtual Machine; S3 → Blob Storage; EKS → AKS; RDS → Azure SQL Database; IAM → Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD); Lambda → Azure Functions; ECR → ACR; CloudWatch → Azure Monitor.
Detailed Answer
When moving from AWS to Azure the primitives map cleanly: compute is Azure VMs, object storage is Blob Storage, managed Kubernetes is AKS, the managed relational DB is Azure SQL Database, identity is Entra ID, serverless is Azure Functions, and the container registry is ACR. Secrets live in Key Vault (vs Secrets Manager). The concepts transfer; mainly the names and some defaults change.
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Interview Tip
Lead with the direct pairs and flag Key Vault (secrets) and Entra ID (identity) — the two most-asked Azure names.
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