Groups covered: Storage, Database, Analytics, Compute, DevOps
| AWS Service | What it does | OSS Alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| S3 | Object store | Minio, Swift, Ceph, ... |
| EFS | File system | Gluster |
| FSx | File system | Lustre |
| Storage Gateway | Hybrid storage | SeaweedFS |
| RDS | Relational database | MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres |
| DynamoDB | NoSQL database | Apache Cassandra |
| ElastiCache | In-memory cache | Memcached, Redis, Valkey |
| Neptune | Graph database | Neo4j |
| Amazon Redshift | Data warehousing | Spark SQL, Apache Hive, Trino, StarRocks, Clickhouse |
| Amazon QLDB | Ledger database | Hyperledger Fabric |
| Amazon DocumentDB | Document database | MongoDB |
| Athena | Data warehousing | Spark SQL, Apache Hive, Trino |
| EMR | Hadoop / Spark | Apache Spark |
| CloudSearch | Search | Opensearch |
| Opensearch Service | Opensearch | Opensearch |
| Kinesis | Data streaming | Apache Kafka, AutoMQ |
| QuickSight | Business analytics | Apache Superset, Metabase |
| AWS Glue | ETL | Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi |
| AWS Lake Formation | Data lake | HDFS |
| MSK | Data streaming | Apache Kafka, AutoMQ |
| EC2 | Virtual machines | |
| EC2 EBS | Block storage for EC2 | OpenEBS, Portworx |
| Lightsail | Virtual machines | |
| ECR | Container registry | Docker Registry, Quay, Harbor, Harness |
| ECS | Container orchestration | Kubernetes, Marathon |
| EKS | Container orchestration | Kubernetes |
| Lambda | Serverless | Knative, OpenFaaS, Fn |
| Batch | Job queue | Apache Airflow |
| CloudFormation | Infrastructure as Code | OpenTofu, Pulumi, Crossplane |
| CodeBuild | Continuous Integration | Jenkins, Woodpecker, Harness |
| CodePipeline | Continuous Delivery | ArgoCD, Woodpecker, Spinnaker, Harness |
| CodeCommit | Git Repository | Forgejo, Harness |
| CloudWatch | Observability | Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana, Logging: Opensearch + Vector + Opensearch Dashboards, Incident Management: GoAlert |
| Secrets Manager | Secret Management | OpenBao |
| App Mesh | Service Mesh | Istio, Kuma, Linkerd |
| Cognito | Identity Provider | Keycloak, Casdoor |
| API Gateway | API Gateway | Apache APISIX |
| ALB | L7 load balancer | NGINX, Envoy |
| NLB | L4 load balancer | NGINX, Envoy |
| MQ | Message broker | RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ |
| SQS | Message queue (pull) | Apache Kafka, AutoMQ |
| SNS | Message queue (push) | RabbitMQ |
| Aurora DSQL | Distributed SQL DB | YugabyteDB, TiDB |
| AWS Backup | Backup for AWS services | N/A |
| Serverless App. Repo. | Serverless repository | N/A |
| Elastic Beanstalk | App deployment | N/A |
