{"id":881,"date":"2021-08-04T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartnet.ua\/?p=881"},"modified":"2021-08-04T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:44:36","slug":"the-cloud-platform-of-your-choice-aws-vs-azure-vs-gcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartnet.ua\/en\/blog\/the-cloud-platform-of-your-choice-aws-vs-azure-vs-gcp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud Platform of Your Choice: AWS vs Azure vs GCP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon<\/strong>,\u00a0Microsoft<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Google<\/strong>\u00a0dominate the public cloud landscape providing the safest, flexible and reliable cloud services. Their respective cloud platforms, AWS, Azure and GCP offer clients a range of storage, computing and networking options.<\/p>\n

Some of the features common among the three platforms include instant provisioning, self-service, autoscaling, identity management, security and compliance, among others.<\/p>\n

At present, AWS can be considered to be much bigger than both Azure and GCP in terms of functionality and maturity.<\/p>\n

However, the other two are also progressing at a faster rate to prove their market dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Features<\/strong><\/td>\nAWS<\/strong><\/td>\nAzure<\/strong><\/td>\nGCP<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Compute Services<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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  • AWS Beanstalk<\/li>\n
  • Amazon EC2<\/li>\n
  • Amazon EC2 Auto-Scaling<\/li>\n
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry<\/li>\n
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service<\/li>\n
  • Amazon Lightsail<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0AWS Serverless Application Repository<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0VMware Cloud for AWS<\/li>\n
  • AWS Batch<\/li>\n
  • AWS Fargate<\/li>\n
  • AWS Lambda<\/li>\n
  • AWS Outposts<\/li>\n
  • Elastic Load Balancing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)<\/li>\n
  • Function-as-a-service (FaaS)<\/li>\n
  • Service Fabric<\/li>\n
  • Azure Batch<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Services<\/li>\n
  • Container Instances Batch<\/li>\n
  • Azure Container Service (AKS)<\/li>\n
  • Virtual Machines Compute Engine<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0Virtual Machine Scale Sets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • App Engine<\/li>\n
  • Docker Container Registry<\/li>\n
  • Instant Groups<\/li>\n
  • Compute Engine<\/li>\n
  • Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)<\/li>\n
  • Knative<\/li>\n
  • Kubernetes<\/li>\n
  • Functions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storage Services<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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  • Simple Storage Service (S3)<\/li>\n
  • Elastic Block Storage (EBS)<\/li>\n
  • Elastic File System (EFS)<\/li>\n
  • Storage Gateway<\/li>\n
  • Snowball<\/li>\n
  • Snowball Edge<\/li>\n
  • Snowmobile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Blob Storage<\/li>\n
  • Queue Storage<\/li>\n
  • File Storage<\/li>\n
  • Disk Storage<\/li>\n
  • Data Lake Store<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Cloud Storage<\/li>\n
  • Persistent Disk<\/li>\n
  • Transfer Appliance<\/li>\n
  • Transfer Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AI\/ML<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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  • SageMaker<\/li>\n
  • Comprehend<\/li>\n
  • Lex<\/li>\n
  • Polly<\/li>\n
  • Rekognition<\/li>\n
  • Machine Learning<\/li>\n
  • Translate<\/li>\n
  • Transcribe<\/li>\n
  • DeepLens<\/li>\n
  • Deep Learning AMIs<\/li>\n
  • Apache MXNet on AWS<\/li>\n
  • TensorFlow on AWS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Machine Learning<\/li>\n
  • Azure Bot Service<\/li>\n
  • Cognitive Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Cloud Machine Learning Engine<\/li>\n
  • Dialogflow Enterprise Edition<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Natural Language<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Speech API<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Translation API<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Video Intelligence<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Job Discovery (Private Beta)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Database Services<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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  • Aurora<\/li>\n
  • RDS<\/li>\n
  • DynamoDB<\/li>\n
  • ElastiCache<\/li>\n
  • Redshift<\/li>\n
  • Neptune<\/li>\n
  • Database Migration Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • SQL Database<\/li>\n
  • Database for MySQL<\/li>\n
  • Database for PostgreSQL<\/li>\n
  • Data Warehouse<\/li>\n
  • Server Stretch Database<\/li>\n
  • Cosmos DB<\/li>\n
  • Table Storage<\/li>\n
  • Redis Cache<\/li>\n
  • Data Factory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Cloud SQL<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Bigtable<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Spanner<\/li>\n
  • Cloud Datastore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Backup Services<\/strong><\/td>\nGlacier<\/td>\n\n
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  • Archive Storage<\/li>\n
  • Backup<\/li>\n
  • Site Recovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Nearline (frequently accessed data)<\/li>\n
  • Coldline (infrequently accessed data)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Serverless computing<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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  • Lambda<\/li>\n
  • Serverless Application Repository<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
Functions<\/td>\nGoogle Cloud Functions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strengths<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
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  • Dominant market position<\/li>\n
  • Extensive, mature offerings<\/li>\n
  • Support for large organizations<\/li>\n
  • Global reach<\/li>\n
  • Flexibility and a wider range of services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Second largest provider<\/li>\n
  • Integration with Microsoft tools and software<\/li>\n
  • Broad feature set<\/li>\n
  • Hybrid cloud<\/li>\n
  • Support for open source<\/li>\n
  • Ideal for startups and developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Designed for cloud-native businesses<\/li>\n
  • Commitment to open source and portability<\/li>\n
  • Flexible contracts<\/li>\n
  • DevOps expertise<\/li>\n
  • Complete container-based model<\/li>\n
  • Most cost-efficient<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Caching<\/strong><\/td>\nElastic Cache<\/td>\nRedis Cache<\/td>\nCloud CDN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
File Storage<\/strong><\/td>\nEFS<\/td>\nAzure Files<\/td>\nZFS and Avere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Networking<\/strong><\/td>\nAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)<\/td>\nAzure Virtual Network (VNET)<\/td>\nCloud Virtual Network<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Security<\/strong><\/td>\nAWS Security Hub<\/td>\nAzure Security Center<\/td>\nCloud Security Command Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Location<\/strong><\/td>\n77 availability zones within 24 geographic regions<\/td>\nPresence in 60+ regions across the world<\/td>\nPresence in 24 regions and 73 zones. Available in 200+ countries and territories<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Documentation<\/strong><\/td>\nBest in class<\/td>\nHigh quality<\/td>\nHigh quality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DNS Services<\/strong><\/td>\nAmazon Route 53<\/td>\nAzure Traffic Manager<\/td>\nCloud DNS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notifications<\/strong><\/td>\nAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)<\/td>\nAzure Notification Hub<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Load Balancing<\/strong><\/td>\nElastic Load Balancing<\/td>\nLoad Balancing for Azure<\/td>\nCloud Load Balancing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Automation<\/strong><\/td>\nAWS Opsworks<\/td>\nAzure Automation<\/td>\nCompute Engine Management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Compliance<\/strong><\/td>\nAWS CloudHSM<\/td>\nAzure Trust Center<\/td>\nGoogle Cloud Platform Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Key Takeaways!<\/h3>\n

The differences between the three major cloud services can be seen by evaluating them using different parameters such as compute, storage, databases, locations and documentation.<\/p>\n