The three major cloud platforms cover 65% of the market. Each has its strengths.
Overview¶
- AWS — 32% market share, broadest portfolio, oldest
- Azure — 23% market share, Microsoft ecosystem, enterprise
- GCP — 10% market share, data/ML/Kubernetes, developer-friendly
Strengths¶
- AWS — most services (200+), largest community, best documentation
- Azure — hybrid cloud (Arc), .NET/Windows, Office 365 integration, enterprise licensing
- GCP — BigQuery, Kubernetes (GKE), ML/AI (Vertex AI), networking
Compute¶
- AWS EC2 vs Azure VMs vs GCP Compute Engine — comparable
- Serverless: Lambda vs Functions vs Cloud Functions
- Containers: EKS vs AKS vs GKE — GKE best K8s experience
Databases¶
- AWS — RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift
- Azure — SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Synapse
- GCP — Cloud SQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Spanner
Pricing¶
Comparable for basic services. GCP committed use discounts, AWS reserved instances, Azure EA agreements. Always calculate for your workload.
Context Matters¶
AWS for the broadest portfolio, Azure for the Microsoft ecosystem, GCP for data/ML. Multi-cloud = complexity.
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