Google Cloud → AWS and Azure
AWS and Azure equivalents of Cloud Storage
The closest AWS equivalent of Google Cloud Cloud Storage is Amazon S3; on Azure, Azure Blob Storage.
About Cloud Storage
| Provider | Google Cloud |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Object storage in buckets with regional, dual-region, and multi-region locations, storage classes, and strong global consistency. |
| Documentation | docs.cloud.google.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS | Match (GCP vs AWS) | Azure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | Amazon S3 | Direct match | Azure Blob Storage |
Object storage Direct match
The Google Cloud equivalent of Amazon S3 is Cloud Storage, which stores objects in buckets in regional, dual-region, or multi-region locations.
- Bucket location is chosen at creation; dual-region and multi-region buckets replicate across regions without a separate replication setup.
- All storage classes, including Archive, return data in milliseconds; there is no restore step like S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval.
- Bucket names are globally unique, as in S3.