Google Cloud → AWS and Azure
AWS and Azure equivalents of Compute Engine machine families and machine types
The closest AWS equivalent of Google Cloud Compute Engine machine families and machine types is Amazon EC2 instance types; on Azure, Azure VM sizes (series).
About Compute Engine machine families and machine types
| Provider | Google Cloud |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | General-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, and accelerator-optimized machine series, plus custom machine types. |
| Documentation | docs.cloud.google.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS | Match (GCP vs AWS) | Azure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instance types and VM sizes | Amazon EC2 instance types | Direct match | Azure VM sizes (series) |
Instance types and VM sizes Direct match
EC2 instance types map to Compute Engine machine families, series, and machine types (for example general-purpose N4 and C4, compute-optimized H4D, memory-optimized X4, and accelerator-optimized A-series).
- Compute Engine also supports custom machine types, where you pick the vCPU and memory amounts yourself.
- Machine type names follow series-shape-vCPUs (for example c4-standard-8) instead of family.size names.