This presentation compares Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), detailing their cloud computing platforms and certification levels. Azure, launched in 2010, offers over 3000 products with a focus on platform as a service, while AWS, the largest cloud service since 2006, provides over 200 products emphasizing infrastructure as a service. The document recommends considering each platform's services and pricing, noting Azure as simpler and AWS as more technical with a broader range of products.

1. Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services

2. This presentation seeks to inform about the generic,
technical part about both and the levels of their
certifications.
The objective here is to merely present the facts to help
you arrive at the best possible decision for your
individual or corporation’s use.
We shall conclude by a summary.

4. Microsoft Inc.’s Cloud computing platform.
Launched in 2010
Second-largest market share in cloud computing
200+ products and services
What is Azure?

5. Platform as a Service [PaaS]
Classic model
One-click migration
Black Storage- Storage option
Pay by the hour payment model
Virtual Network [VNET] service
Azure- Technicals

6. Mobile and Storage services
Data Management testing
Computing and Deploying
Direct Connections
Some of Azure’s
services:

7. Access to more than 3000 free & paid products and services of
Microsoft
Availability to open source applications, frameworks, and
templates,
Benefit of single and multiple virtual machine images
Facility of role-based access and fine-grained access control
Automatic billing and monthly charges’ prediction
Direct feedback channel for Azure product team
Benefits of using
Azure:

8. More than 85 Microsoft
Azure certifications are
offered in 4 divisions

9. Foundational
Associate
Expert &
Speciality

11. Short for Amazon Web Service
Launched in 2006
Cloud Computing service from Amazon Inc.
World’s largest cloud computing service
More than 200 products and services
What is AWS?

12. Infrastructure as a Service [IaaS]
Responsibility-sharing model
S3- Storage Option
EC2 container registry- registry containers
Pay by the minute payment model
Virtual Private Cloud [VPC] service
AWS-Technicals

13. Computing
Data Lakes and Analytics
Machine learning
Internet of Things
Routing
Some of AWS’s
services:

14. Safe and rapid hosting of apps by Application providers,
Independent Software Vendors, and regular vendors
Choice of operating system, programming language, web
application platform, database
AWS tools, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing for
scaling up or down an application
No long or immediate commitment
Billing only for compute power, storage and other services
utilized
End-to-end approach for security
Benefits of using AWS:

15. There are 11 Amazon
Web Services [AWS]
certifications across 4
tiers

16. Foundational
Associate
Professional &
Speciality

17. Both are giants of the cloud-computing industry. It is
best to examine their range of services and the
respective pricing of those.
From a certifications’ perspective, if you want to go for
simpler more relatable concepts: go for Azure.
If you like more technical and having a wider range of
products to work on, go for AWS.

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