Azure and Ali Cloud services comparison

A comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Public cloud is still evolving and both Alibaba Cloud and Azure is introducing new products and services from time to time.

Alibaba Cloud	Azure
Compute
Elastic Compute Service (ECS)	Virtual Machines
Elastic GPU Service	Virtual Machines N-series
Auto Scaling	Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Server Load Balancer	Load Balancer
Container Service	Azure Container Service (AKS) Container Instances
Resource Orchestration Service (ROS)	Azure Service Fabric
Elastic High Performance Computing (E-HPC)	N/A
Storage & CDN
Object Storage Service (OSS)	Blob storage
Table Store	Table storage
Alibaba Cloud CDN	Content Delivery Network
Network Attached Storage (NAS)	File Storage
Networking
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Virtual Network
Express Connect	ExpressRoute
NAT Gateway	N/A
Server Load Balancer	Load Balancer
Elastic IP	Reserved IP
VPN Gateway	VPN Gateway
Database
ApsaraDB for RDS	SQL Database
ApsaraDB for Redis	Azure Redis Cache
ApsaraDB HybridDB for PostgreSQL	Azure Database for PostgreSQL
ApsaraDB for MongoDB	Azure Cosmos DB
Data Transmission Service (DTS)	Data Factory
Security
Anti-DDoS Basic	Azure DDoS Protection
Anti-DDoS Pro	Azure DDoS Protection
Mobile Security	N/A
Web Application Firewall (WAF)	Integrated in Application Gateway
Server Guard	Log Analyticsin OMS
SSL Certificates Service	Part of Azure App Service
Monitoring & Management
CloudMonitor	Azure Monitor
Resource Access Management (RAM)	Azure Active Directory
Key Management Service (KMS)	Key Vault
Domains & Website
Web Hosting	Web Apps
Domains	N/A
Cloud DNS(Domain Name System)	Azure DNS
Analytics & Big Data
Elastic MapReduce (E-MapReduce)	HDInsight
MaxCompute	SQL Data Warehouse Data Lake Store
DataWorks	Data Factory
Quick BI	Power BI Embedded
Application Service
Message Service	Notification Hubs
API Gateway	API Management
Log Service	Log Analytics
DirectMail	N/A. Third party SMTP service is available in Azure Marketplace
Media Services
ApsaraVideo Live	Media Services

Do let me know if you agree or disagree on the comparison table.

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