In AWS, **Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)** and **Amazon Aurora** are the main managed database services. The **Google Cloud Platform (GCP)** equivalents are: * **Amazon RDS ↔ Cloud SQL** * AWS RDS supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server. * GCP Cloud SQL supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server. * Both are fully managed relational databases with backups, scaling, and maintenance. * **Amazon Aurora ↔ Cloud SQL / AlloyDB** * Aurora is a cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, offering better performance and replication. * GCP has two options: * **Cloud SQL** (for standard workloads). * **AlloyDB for PostgreSQL** (for high performance, cloud-native PostgreSQL, closer to Aurora in positioning). * **Amazon DynamoDB ↔ Cloud Bigtable / Firestore** * DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database. * In GCP, depending on the use case: * **Cloud Bigtable** is used for large-scale, wide-column workloads. * **Firestore** (and older Datastore) is used for document-based NoSQL apps. * **Amazon Redshift ↔ BigQuery** * Redshift is AWS’s data warehouse. * BigQuery is GCP’s serverless, highly scalable data warehouse. Would you like me to prepare a **side-by-side table** with AWS → GCP database service mappings for quick reference?