Tuesday 23 March 2021

AWS vs GCP – Which one is the best?

There are several cloud providers around the world that we can choose the best one based an our application needs, It could be price,demand, traffic, technologies and our desire to always improve makes us select the best ones in the market. 

But who are they (AWS vs GCP vs Azure)? What are their benefits?

Well, based on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Worldwide we can see Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google are the top 3 cloud infrastructure providers. They obviously haven’t been in the market at the same time, Google is the latest competitor to join.

What do they have in common? and How can we benefit from choosing our applications with them?

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services was officially launched in 2006. It currently offers online services for websites, applications or any infrastructure.
In 2013 Amazon became a business with revenues of more than $ 7B in resale services with a 23.5% margin of operation, making AWS a business of 10B USD run rate business. They grow their services over 40% every year.

Why is Amazon a Good choice for any business?

Whether you are an e-commerce, blog, media site, marketing site, real estate website, Amazon can be a real game changer for your business. Its wide variety of services will enable you to evolve and reach the next level to offer new great things to your customers.

The advantages that the cloud offers to any business are quite profitable compared to traditional hosting, such as:
  • Pay as you go model.
  • Minimize time to market.
  • Agility to launch servers.
  • Forget about storage costs.
  • Agility in apps development.
  • Services entirely managed. 


Google Compute Engine                   
IaaS service is providing virtual machines, similar to Amazon EC2.
Google App Engine
PaaS service for directly hosting applications, similar to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
BigTable
IaaS service providing MapReduce services, similar to Hadoop.




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