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AWS Vs Microsoft Azure Vs Google Cloud

Kamal Verma

Introduction:

 

We are all aware of the revolution that cloud computing has brought in the IT world. It has resolved many of the difficulties in setting up and managing complex IT infrastructure. It provides a simple and easy way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet and hence allows companies to focus more on their core businesses. Today, many businesses and enterprises runs on cloud and are benefited by the simplicity, efficiency and reliability of Cloud Services. For more information on Cloud computing you can visit my previous blog on cloud computing.

 

In this blog, we will talk about the top three major Cloud Service Providers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud in terms of their IaaS and PaaS Cloud Services. There are also several other Cloud providers in the market like IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, etc who are competing in this field but have a smaller Market share.

 

Amazon Web Services(AWS):

 

AWS is currently the biggest Cloud service Provider in the world. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to both individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis with a free-tier option available for 12 months.

 

 

 

Microsoft Azure:

 

It is the second largest cloud service Provider. Microsoft Azure (formally Windows Azure) was created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.

 

 

 

Google Cloud Platform(GCP):

 

GCP is the Third largest Cloud Service Provider. Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.

 

 

 

“AWS”  Vs  “Azure”  Vs  “GCP”

 

AWS has been the biggest Cloud service Provider followed by fast growing market of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It was the first company of its kind to offer Infrastructure as a service since 2006 from its expertise that it gained in operating its e-commerce site Amazon.com. Starting early benefited AWS making it to occupy the largest share in the market and maintains a large gap between its competitors Microsoft and Google in the race. But Both Microsoft and Google have shown high growth rates and they are expanding their services globally.

 

Although Microsoft Azure has a huge gap in Market share with AWS, it is attracting large number of companies as it has managed to developed a large number of reliable services very close to AWS with easy integration of its existing Microsoft tools and services and focusing on Hybrid cloud infrastructure set up for enterprises. On the other hand Google is also taking a strong stand in providing quality services and rapidly increasing and expanding its services to reach out maximum global Market and gain larger market share. Google claims to have the best IT infrastructure in the world along with the fastest Internet speed with which it is taking a promising stand to provide a better Computing experience.

 

Gartner predicts that by 2020, the cloud market will reach $383 billion. This revels the huge underlying opportunities in the field of Cloud services. All the three companies are competing with each other by providing better technology and wide range of services to capture the growing cloud market. We have recently seen price cut from all the three cloud providers due to growing competition. Every cloud provider is tyyng to offer cheaper services and gain larger market share. Keeping in mind that price is a crucial factor in gaining market share, all the three players trying to provide competitive price to their customers.  They are also aiming at providing the best and reliable services cloud experience to customers at as per the market..

 

Microsoft and Google are trying hard to achieve the level that AWS has reached through its expertise and innovation in providing a wide range of reliable services with high customer satisfaction. They are trying to offer all similar services that AWS has developed over the years in order to give a better competition to AWS. It will be interesting to see what innovations each company will make once they reach the level of offering similar services like AWS, with their own technical developments and capabilities. There is a good on going competition in the areas like computing, Storage, Databases, Deployment, Networking, Security, Price, Support , Troubleshooting and Matrices, Uptime, etc.

 

Let us discuss few of the services offered by AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

 

Compute:

 

 

 

Storage:

 

 

 

Databases:

 

 

 

Pricing:

 

 

 

Troubleshooting and Monitoring:

 

 

Uptime:

 

 

 

User Interface:

 

 

 

Conclusion:

 

From the comparison, we can conclude that AWS is the biggest market player. It also has a higher experience and expertise in the technology. However Microsoft Azure is showing a rapid growth Rate and enterprise acceptance. It is continuously improving its infrastructure and service to minimize the gap with AWS. On the other hand Google who is comparatively the newer from the other two. It is also showing a high growth rate and rapid expansion of its Infrastructure and providing quality services globally. Hence, it will be interesting to see who performs better in the long run. It will depend on the quality of service, innovation, reliability, support, ease of use, and time of execution.

 

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