Cloud Providers
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AWS is a comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform offered by Amazon. It provides a vast array of cloud services, including computing power, storage, databases, machine learning, and more, enabling businesses to scale and innovate.
Compute: EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), Lambda (serverless computing)
Storage: S3 (Simple Storage Service), EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Databases: RDS (Relational Database Service), DynamoDB (NoSQL)
Networking: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Route 53 (DNS)
Management Tools: CloudWatch (monitoring), CloudFormation (infrastructure as code)
Strengths: Extensive service catalog, global reach with numerous data centers, strong security and compliance features.
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform that offers a range of cloud services including virtual machines, databases, analytics, and more. Azure integrates well with Microsoft’s software products and provides enterprise-grade solutions.
Compute: Virtual Machines, Azure Functions (serverless computing)
Storage: Blob Storage, Managed Disks
Databases: Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB (NoSQL)
Networking: Virtual Network, Azure DNS
Management Tools: Azure Monitor, Azure Resource Manager
Strengths: Strong integration with Microsoft products (e.g., Windows Server, Active Directory), extensive hybrid cloud capabilities.
GCP is Google's cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services for computing, storage, data analytics, and machine learning. It is known for its strengths in data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Compute: Compute Engine (VMs), Cloud Functions (serverless computing)
Storage: Cloud Storage, Persistent Disks
Databases: Cloud SQL, Bigtable (NoSQL)
Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancing
Management Tools: Cloud Monitoring, Deployment Manager
Strengths: Advanced data analytics and machine learning tools, strong Kubernetes support with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), global infrastructure.