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Cloud Service Provider

Cloud Service providers (CSP) offers various services such as Software as a


Service, Platform as a service, Infrastructure as a service, network services, business
applications, mobile applications, and infrastructure in the cloud. The cloud service
providers host these services in a data center, and users can access these services through
cloud provider companies using an Internet connection.

There are the following Cloud Service Providers Companies -

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a secure cloud service platform provided by Amazon. It
offers various services such as database storage, computing power, content delivery,
Relational Database, Simple Email, Simple Queue, and other functionality to increase the
organization's growth.
Features of AWS

AWS provides various powerful features for building scalable, cost-effective, enterprise
applications. Some important features of AWS is given below-

o AWS is scalable because it has an ability to scale the computing resources up or


down according to the organization's demand.
o AWS is cost-effective as it works on a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
o It provides various flexible storage options.
o It offers various security services such as infrastructure security, data encryption,
monitoring & logging, identity & access control, penetration testing, and DDoS
attacks.
o It can efficiently manage and secure Windows workloads.

2. Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is also known as Windows Azure. It supports various operating systems,
databases, programming languages, frameworks that allow IT professionals to easily build,
deploy, and manage applications through a worldwide network. It also allows users to create
different groups for related utilities.

Features of Microsoft Azure

o Microsoft Azure provides scalable, flexible, and cost-effective


o It allows developers to quickly manage applications and websites.
o It managed each resource individually.
o Its IaaS infrastructure allows us to launch a general-purpose virtual machine in
different platforms such as Windows and Linux.
o It offers a Content Delivery System (CDS) for delivering the Images, videos, audios,
and applications.

3. Google Cloud Platform

Google cloud platform is a product of Google. It consists of a set of physical devices, such as
computers, hard disk drives, and virtual machines. It also helps organizations to simplify the
migration process.

Features of Google Cloud

o Google cloud includes various big data services such as Google BigQuery, Google
CloudDataproc, Google CloudDatalab, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
o It provides various services related to networking, including Google Virtual Private
Cloud (VPC), Content Delivery Network, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Google
Cloud Interconnect, and Google Cloud DNS.
o It offers various scalable and high-performance
o GCP provides various serverless services such as Messaging, Data Warehouse,
Database, Compute, Storage, Data Processing, and Machine learning (ML)
o It provides a free cloud shell environment with Boost Mode.
4. IBM Cloud Services

IBM Cloud is an open-source, faster, and more reliable platform. It is built with a suite of
advanced data and AI tools. It offers various services such as Infrastructure as a
service, Software as a service, and platform as a service. You can access its services like
compute power, cloud data & Analytics, cloud use cases, and storage networking using
internet connection.

Feature of IBM Cloud

o IBM cloud improves operational efficiency.


o Its speed and agility improve the customer's satisfaction.
o It offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), as well as
Software as a Service (SaaS)
o It offers various cloud communications services to our IT environment.

5. VMware Cloud

VMware cloud is a Software-Defined Data Center (SSDC) unified platform for the Hybrid
Cloud. It allows cloud providers to build agile, flexible, efficient, and robust cloud services.

Features of VMware

o VMware cloud works on the pay-as-per-use model and monthly subscription


o It provides better customer satisfaction by protecting the user's data.
o It can easily create a new VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) cluster
on AWS cloud by utilizing a RESTful API.
o It provides flexible storage options. We can manage our application storage on a per-
application basis.
o It provides a dedicated high-performance network for managing the application traffic
and also supports multicast networking.
o It eliminates the time and cost complexity.

6. Oracle cloud

Oracle cloud platform is offered by the Oracle Corporation. It combines Platform as a


Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, and Data as a Service with cloud
infrastructure. It is used to perform tasks such as moving applications to the cloud, managing
development environment in the cloud, and optimize connection performance.
Features of Oracle cloud

o Oracle cloud provides various tools for build, integrate, monitor, and secure the
applications.
o Its infrastructure uses various languages including, Java, Ruby, PHP, Node.js.
o It integrates with Docker, VMware, and other DevOps tools.
o Oracle database not only provides unparalleled integration between IaaS, PaaS, and
SaaS, but also integrates with the on-premises platform to improve operational
efficiency.
o It maximizes the value of IT investments.
o It offers customizable Virtual Cloud Networks, firewalls, and IP addresses to securely
support private networks.

7. Red Hat

Red Hat virtualization is an open standard and desktop virtualization platform produced by
Red Hat. It is very popular for the Linux environment to provide various infrastructure
solutions for virtualized servers as well as technical workstations. Most of the small and
medium-sized organizations use Red Hat to run their organizations smoothly. It offers higher
density, better performance, agility, and security to the resources. It also improves the
organization's economy by providing cheaper and easier management capabilities.

Features of Rad Hat

o Red Hat provides secure, certified, and updated container images via the Red Hat
Container catalog.
o Red Hat cloud includes OpenShift, which is an app development platform that allows
developers to access, modernize, and deploy apps
o It supports up to 16 virtual machines, each having up to 256GB of RAM.
o It offers better reliability, availability, and serviceability.
o It provides flexible storage capabilities, including very large SAN-based storage,
better management of memory allocations, high availability of LVMs, and support for
particularly roll-back.
o In the Desktop environment, it includes features like New on-screen keyboard,
GNOME software, which allows us to install applications, update application, as well
as extended device support.

8. DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is the unique cloud provider that offers computing services to the organization.
It was founded in 2011 by Moisey Uretsky and Ben. It is one of the best cloud provider that
allows us to manage and deploy web applications.
Features of DigitalOcean

o It uses the KVM hypervisor to allocate physical resources to the virtual servers.
o It provides high-quality performance.
o It offers a digital community platform that helps to answer queries and holding
feedbacks.
o It allows developers to use cloud servers to quickly create new virtual machines for
their projects.
o It offers one-click apps for droplets. These apps include MySQL, Docker, MongoDB,
Wordpress, PhpMyAdmin, LAMP stack, Ghost, and Machine Learning.

9. Rackspace

Rackspace offers cloud computing services such as hosting web applications, Cloud Backup,
Cloud Block Storage, Databases, and Cloud Servers. The main aim to designing Rackspace is
to easily manage private and public cloud deployments. Its data centers operating in the USA,
UK, Hong Kong, and Australia.

Features of Rackspace

o Rackspace provides various tools that help organizations to collaborate and


communicate more efficiently.
o We can access files that are stored on the Rackspace cloud drive, anywhere, anytime
using any device.
o It offers 6 globally data centers.
o It can manage both virtual servers and dedicated physical servers on the same
network.
o It provides better performance at a lower cost.

10. Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is used to develop data management and highly scalable cloud computing
services. It offers various services, including Elastic Computing, Storage, Networking,
Security, Database Services, Application Services, Media Services, Cloud Communication,
and Internet of Things.

Features of Alibaba Cloud

o Alibaba cloud offers a suite of global cloud computing services for both international
customers and Alibaba Group's e-commerce ecosystem.
o Its services are available on a pay-as-per-use basis.
o It globally deals with its 14 data centers.
o It offers scalable and reliable data storage.
Difference between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform which was introduced in 2002.
It offers a wide range of cloud services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as
a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

AWS provides the largest community with millions of active customers as well as thousands
of partners globally. Most of the organizations use AWS to expand their business by moving
their IT management to the AWS.

Flexibility, security, scalability, and better performance are some important features of AWS.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is also called as Windows Azure. It is a worldwide cloud platform which is
used for building, deploying, and managing services. It supports multiple programming
languages such as Java, Nodejs, C, and C#. The advantage of using Microsoft Azure is that
it allows us to a wide variety of services without arranging and purchasing additional
hardware components.

Microsoft Azure provides several computing services, including servers, storage, databases,
software, networking, and analytics over the Internet.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is introduced by Google in 2011. It allows us to use Google's
products such as Google search engine, Gmail, YouTube, etc. Most of the companies use
this platform to easily build, move, and deploy applications on the cloud. It allows us to
access these applications using a high-speed internet connection. The advantage of GCP is
that it supports various databases such as SQL, MYSQL, Oracle, Sam, and more.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides various cloud computing services, including
computing, data analytics, data storage, and machine learning.
Difference between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Although AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google cloud platforms offer various high-level
features in terms of computing, management, storage, and other services, but there are also
some differences between these three.

The below table shows the difference between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
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Parameter AWS Azure Google Cloud


Platform

It uses Cloud Test


App Testing It uses device farm It uses DevTest labs
labs.

Amazon API
API Management Azure API gateway Cloud endpoints.
gateway

Kubernetes
EKS Kubernetes service Kubernetes engine
Management

AWS source Azure source Cloud source


Git Repositories
repositories repositories repositories.

Data warehouse Redshift SQL warehouse Big Query

Google cloud
Object Storage S3 Block Blobs and files
storage.

Relational DB RDS Relational DBs Google Cloud SQL

Block Storage EBS Page Blobs Persistent disks

Marketplace AWS Azure G suite


File Storage EFS Azure Files ZFS and Avere

Amazon Elastic Cloud video


Media Services Azure media services
transcoder intelligence API

Virtual network VPC VNet Subnet

Pricing Per hour Per minute Per minute

Maximum
128 128 96
processors in VM

Maximum memory
3904 3800 1433
in VM (GiB)

Catching ElasticCache RedisCache CloudCDN

Load Balancing Elastic Load Load Balancer Cloud Load


Configuration Balancing Application Gateway Balancing

Global Content Content Delivery


CloudFront Cloud Interconnect
Delivery Networks Network

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