14. GCP vs AWS vs Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): 5 years in operation. The initial push
was done to power their own services such as YouTube and Google.
Later on, they built enterprise services and enabled anyone to host in
the cloud.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): 11 years in operation, AWS is one of
the oldest players in the cloud market. Their computing services are
extensive and cover important cloud sections such as deployment,
mobile networking, etc. Amazon manages AWS.
• Microsoft Azure: 6 years old in the market. They can easily be
associated with the leader group in the market with AWS. Azure also
provide a complete set of cloud services. Microsoft manages Azure.
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16. Compute
• AWS offers EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) it works virtual machines,
which can either be configured by the owner or comes with
preconfigured settings for ease of use.
• GCP offers GCE(Google Cloud Engine) which works same as EC2.
• Microsoft Azure provides Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale
Sets.
• All of these supports containers which helps in handling instances
more swiftly.
• Price is the main deciding factor when to choose according to
compute power
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17. Storage
• Amazon S3(Simple Storage Service) is best from all three. It has better
storage solution so it is costly. It provides 1 to 16TB.
• Azure provide 1GB to 1TB.
• Google provide 1GB to 64TB.
• For HHD, AWS starts at $0.045, for Google it's $0.04 and Azure is
$0.03 per GB per month.
• For SSD pricing starts at $0.10 in AWS, $0.17 for Google and around
$0.13 for Azure.
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18. Databases
• Amazon’s (Relational Database Service) provides support for major
databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle etc.
• Azure and GCP supports SQL databases queries.
• All the platforms provides multiple services to handle data.
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19. Conclusion
• Amazon AWS is the safest in the market. It leads in market by giving
widest range of functionality and maturity.
• Azure can help in using Microsoft’s products. It is giving competition
to AWS.
• GCP is making good progress with customers but still needs more
work to be done.
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