A Provider-Agnostic Cloud Architecture Reference If you've ever switched cloud providers (or worked across more than one) you know the pain: every vendor invents its own name for the same fundamental building block. S3 is Blob Storage is Cloud Storage. EKS is AKS is GKE. The architecture is largely the same; the marketing is different. I got tired of mentally translating, so I built a single-page reference that maps 14 cloud components and 65 distinct types across AWS, Azure, GCP, and the open-source ecosystem. What's in it Compute : VMs, containers, serverless, batch Storage : object, block, file, archive Networking : VPCs, load balancers, CDNs, DNS, VPN Databases : relational, NoSQL, graph, time-series, warehouse, lake IAM, Security, Messaging, API Management, Observability, Orchestration, CI/CD, Caching, DR, Cost & Governance Each type has a one-line description and the canonical equivalent in each provider, with notes on services in transition (e.g.…