Azure vs AWS vs GCP
Now we are looking at what are the different cloud services available and what are the differences between them?
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) offer high-quality services with multiple capabilities, excellent availability, good performance, high security, and customer support. The cloud market is governed by the top three cloud services providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Each cloud service provider supplies multiple products according to the user requirements over the internet. Most commonly used cloud services include –
- Compute
- Storage
- Database
- Networking and Content Delivery
- Management tools
- Development Tools
- Security
Market share of AWS, AZURE, and GCP
Azure
Azure is a cloud service provided by Microsoft.
Azure was announced in October 2008, started with the codename “Project Red Dog”, and released on February 1, 2010, as “Windows Azure” before being renamed “Microsoft Azure” on March 25, 2014.
Azure has 54 regions worldwide and is available in 140 countries all around the world. Availability zones are the physical location of the data centers where the situated.
Microsoft Azure is in the second place, owning around 16 percent of the worldwide market share.
AWS (amazon web services)
- AWS is a web service provided by the Amazon
- In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services
- AWS has 66 availability zones with 12 more on the way. Availability zones are the physical location of the data centers where the situated.
- AWS is leading with around 30 percent of public cloud share in its name.
GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
In April 2008, Google announced a preview release of App Engine, a developer tool that allowed users to run their web applications on Google infrastructure.
- Google Cloud Platform has been made available in 20 regions around the world with 3 more on their way. Availability zones are the physical location of the data centers where the situated.
- Google, on the third place, owns up to 10 percent of the market share worldwide.
Azure vs AWS vs GCP :Pricing Structure:
Whether the customer is an individual or an enterprise, all of these cloud services make cloud offerings with a pricing model. This is the best characteristic of these cloud service providers as you don’t need to buy a cloud solution. The pricing model these clouds follow is to pay as you go; it means you need to pay on the basis of usage. Considering AWS Vs Azure Vs Google, Amazon charges on an hourly basis while Azure and Google charge on the minute basis. One can choose to make advanced payments i.e. prepaid or monthly payments i.e. postpaid.
AWS Vs Azure Vs Google: Development Tools
Development tools are used to build, diagnose, debug, deploy and, manage multiplatform scalable applications and services. On the basis of services provided by development tools domain, the difference between the top three public clouds can be given as given in the following table.
AWS Vs Azure Vs Google: Networking and Content Delivery
Each cloud service provider offers different networks. Amazon’s network is the Virtual Private Cloud, Azure’s network is the Virtual Network, and Google’s network is the Subnet. On the basis of services provided by networking & content delivery domain, the difference between the top three public clouds is given by the table below.
AWS Vs Azure Vs Google Cloud: Who Uses Them?
Since AWS is the oldest player in the cloud market, it has bigger community support and user base. Therefore, AWS has more high-profile and well-known companies like Airbnb, Netflix, BMW, Samsung, MI, Unilever etc..
Azure is also gaining its share of high-profile customers with time. As of now, Azure has almost 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies as its customers. Some of its major customers are Johnson Controls, Polycom, Fujifilm, HP, Honeywell, Apple, etc.
Google, on the other hand, shares the same infrastructure as that of Google Search and YouTube and, as a result, many high-end companies have put their faith in Google Cloud. Major clients of Google Cloud are HSBC, PayPal, 20th Century Fox, Bloomberg, Dominos, and more.
I hope you learned something!!!!
