a2a

What it is and what it does

A2A is a command-line tool designed for DevOps and SRE engineers working across Azure and AWS. It provides quick lookups of equivalent service names between the two platforms, eliminating the need to manually consult cloud documentation each time you need to find a service mapping.

The tool accepts a service name from either Azure or AWS and returns the corresponding service on the other platform, along with documentation URLs. It uses web scraping to gather service information. However, the package has not been updated since August 2020 and is no longer maintained, so the mappings and underlying dependencies may be outdated.

Use it for:

• Quickly find the Azure equivalent when working with an AWS service you're unfamiliar with.
• Look up the AWS equivalent of an Azure service during multi-cloud architecture planning.
• Onboard new team members to multi-cloud environments by providing instant service name translations.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

A2A is a CLI tool that maps service names between Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, letting you quickly find the equivalent service offering on the other platform.

No. The package is abandoned (last update August 2020) and targets outdated Python versions (3.4–3.6). Cloud service offerings have changed significantly since then, making the mappings unreliable. For current multi-cloud service lookups, use official cloud documentation or actively maintained alternatives.

Install

a2a on PyPI

pip install a2a

uv add a2a

poetry add a2a

Installing a2a

Before you install

Installation friction is high; the package has no runtime dependencies but was abandoned in August 2020 and has not been updated since. Compatibility with modern Python versions and current cloud service offerings is uncertain.

License in practice

MIT license is permissive and poses no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution.

Quickstart

$ pip install a2a
$ a2a "Firewall"
# Returns corresponding Azure/AWS service and documentation URLs

Package targets Python 3.4–3.6 and has not been maintained since 2020; compatibility with modern Python versions is unverified.

Verify before relying

• Whether service mappings remain accurate given cloud platform changes since August 2020.
• Compatibility with Python versions released after the package's last update.
• Whether the Scrappy dependency is still installed and functional with current versions.
• Current accuracy of scraped service data and whether upstream documentation URLs remain valid.

Package facts

Evidence: a2a-0.44.tar.gz

Keywords: aws, service, mapping, map, aws, amazon

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