Cloud Behavioral Divergence Guide: Where AWS, Azure, and GCP Actually Differ

Calendar February 22, 2026
Cloud-Services
Intermediate, Advanced
Multi-Cloud-Operations, Cloud-Migration-Planning, Infrastructure-Debugging, Cross-Cloud-Translation
Aws, Azure, Gcp, Multi-Cloud, Iam, Irsa, Workload-Identity, Managed-Identity, Vpc, Vnet, Networking, Storage, Ebs, Csi-Drivers, Rds, Cloud-Sql, Azure-Sql, Dns, Load-Balancers, Behavioral-Divergence
Aws-Cli, Gcloud, Az-Cli, Kubectl, Terraform

Cloud Behavioral Divergence Guide#

Running the “same” workload on AWS, Azure, and GCP does not produce the same behavior. The Kubernetes API is portable, application containers are portable, and SQL queries are portable. Everything else – identity, networking, storage, load balancing, DNS, and managed service behavior – diverges in ways that matter for production reliability.

This guide documents the specific divergence points with practical examples. Use it when translating infrastructure from one cloud to another, when debugging behavior that differs between environments, or when assessing migration risk.