AWS 

Azure 

Description

Simple Storage Services (S3)

Blob storage

Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics.

Simple Storage Services (S3)

Blob storage

Object storage service, for use cases including cloud applications, content distribution, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, and big data analytics.

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

managed disks

SSD storage optimized for I/O intensive read/write operations. For use as high-performance Azure virtual machine storage.

Elastic File System

Files

Provides a simple interface to create and configure file systems quickly, and share common files. Can be used with traditional protocols that access files over a network.

AWS Storage Gateway: S3 File Gateway

Azure Data Box Gateway, Azure File Sync

Provides on-premises, locally cached NFS and SMB file shares that are cloud-backed.

AWS Storage Gateway: Tape Gateway

None

Replaces on-premises physical tapes with on-premises, cloud-backed virtual tapes.

AWS Storage Gateway: Volume Gateway

None

Provides on-premises iSCSI based block storage that is cloud-backed.

DataSync

File Sync

Azure Files can be deployed in two main ways: by directly mounting the serverless Azure file shares or by caching Azure file shares on-premises using Azure File Sync.

Import/Export Disk

Import/Export

A data transport solution that uses secure disks and appliances to transfer large amounts of data. Also offers data protection during transit.

Import/Export Snowball, Snowball Edge, Snowmobile

Data Box

Petabyte- to exabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure data storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from Azure.