Cloud Vendor Product Matrix: Comparing Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and GCP

February 22, 2026

Cloud-Platform-Evaluation, Cost-Analysis, Vendor-Comparison, Migration-Planning, Architecture-Design

Cloud-Comparison, Cloudflare, Aws, Azure, Gcp, Pricing, Vendor-Lock-In, Portability, Serverless, Object-Storage, Databases, Cdn, Free-Tier, Regions, Availability-Zones

Cloudflare-Workers, Aws-Lambda, Azure-Functions, Gcp-Cloud-Run, Aws-S3, Cloudflare-R2, Terraform

Cloud Vendor Product Matrix#

Choosing between cloud vendors requires mapping equivalent services across providers. AWS has 200+ services. Azure has 200+. GCP has 100+. Cloudflare has 20+ but they are tightly integrated and edge-native. This article maps the services that matter for most applications – compute, serverless, databases, storage, networking, and observability – across all four vendors with pricing, availability, and portability for each.

How to Use This Matrix#

Each section maps equivalent products across vendors, then provides:

Multi-Cloud vs Single-Cloud Strategy Decisions

February 22, 2026

Cloud-Services

Advanced

Cloud-Architecture-Design, Vendor-Lock-in-Assessment, Cost-Analysis, Disaster-Recovery-Planning, Multi-Cloud-Operations

Multi-Cloud, Cloud-Strategy, Vendor-Lock-In, Kubernetes, Aws, Azure, Gcp, Disaster-Recovery, Cost-Optimization, Cloud-Architecture

Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, Aws, Azure, Gcp, Pulumi

Multi-Cloud vs Single-Cloud Strategy#

Multi-cloud is one of the most oversold strategies in infrastructure. Vendors, consultants, and conference speakers promote it as the default approach, but the reality is that most organizations are better served by a single cloud provider used well. This framework helps you determine whether multi-cloud is actually worth the cost for your situation.

The Default Answer Is Single-Cloud#

Start with single-cloud unless you have a specific, concrete reason to go multi-cloud. Here is why.