Cloud Provider Comparisons: AWS vs Azure vs GCP

Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Platform - they’re the big three players in cloud computing, but which is the best cloud provider and how do you choose between them? In this video we compare AWS, Azure, and GCP at an organizational level. We take a look at their origins, market share, growth rate, ownership, cloud services, key customers, and strengths and weaknesses. We also explore how to choose which cloud provider is right for your business and your career. If you’re curious about how AWS, Azure, and GCP match up, this video is for you!

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 The origins of AWS, Azure, and GCP
3:30 Who owns AWS, Azure, and GCP, and how they report cloud revenue
5:00 Enterprise customers of AWS, Azure, and GCP
6:16 What are the key strengths of AWS, Azure, and GCP?
7:46 What are the key challenges facing AWS, Azure, and GCP?
10:00 How do I choose which cloud provider is best for me?

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[haydendenny]

As a new-ish cloud person, this is such useful content!

[oladipupoesuola]

This is very explanatory and an eye opener. I understand that the Kubernetes engine give a lot of advantages to GCP, no wonder a few organizations are more comfortable with with them. However the opportunities in AWS is huge, and Microsoft understanding of Enterprise softwares cannot be overemphasized. Well done team A Cloud Guru. Any subscription discount available to take the GCP & Azure training with you?

[khanyasi]

A nice comparison helped me understanding the path I chose for my career in Azure. Thanks

[유기견TV]

I was looking for the contents like this! I hit the subscribe button thanks!

[lifereviewsst]

Very well explained from multiple perspectives, thank you.

[bjhnfj]

so, i'm a noob on tecnology so which it would be the best option ?

[EngrDJDebug]

​ @A Cloud Guru what about AZ-303 & AZ-304 courses, which are much more outdated than AZ-400, & AZ-500 when are you planning to update AZ-303 & AZ-304 courses?

[GyanFhaD]

Very informative. This is useful cloud comparison video. good job.

[mohanayare]

Very useful comparison... Loved the strategies suggested in last part of how to make a choice.

[zhimmitheebanks]

THANK YOU for making a USEFUL cloud comparison video. Very informative. So many of these videos are padded with CRAP. Good job.

[KenSherman]

Good stuff!

10:14
My sentiments exactly. Great suggestion!

[swpyepg]

Good content!, You just got a new subscriber.

[BertLaverman]

Nice overview. Although I understand (and somewhat agree with) your advice to stick with a single provider, I missed the obvious conclusion: finding a “common denominator” for going cross-cloud is really hard. Their architectures are so incompatible that even “generic” tools like packer and terraform have completely different keywords in use when writing the configuration. A packer config for building an image in GCE is useless when you try to do the same on AWS, apart from the actual scripting inside the VM. Tools that _do_ try have to restrict themselves in what you can tweak, to the point of uselessness, unless provided with lots of separate (cloud-specific) configuration.

[aksharpatel]

Amazingly clear explanation. Thank you!

[timgibney]

The 2 problems I see with Azure is Microsoft's licensing of IAS makes it cheaper not to use Azure services and just move VM's over where the customer manages the OS. Azure lacks reliability regions and has had several outages. AWS is still ahead as a result. Copilot may in the near future change things but all the cool custom hardware for AI is only available on AWS including quantum chips. Very cloud features like paas and reliability AWS is still king

[sourabhsuri]

How about the licensing models? Great video and content though !

[m_sedziwoj]

Name one service which was close on GCP, not by Google, because this are two different selling models for different customers. And talking about past, or how is on which platform is waste of time, because if Netflix would selecting cloud provider today, they could select different. For me most important are what service they giving and if others have alternatives. AWS S3 and Google Storage, similar, but Google BigQuery, Firebase, and many more?

[ashwaqjaved]

I am a windows admin so, I just love Azure... I also think many customer who has existing windows environment would prefer to go to Azure as it is also Microsoft managed product...

[Freestyle]

is googls cloud even in the conversation? I barely see any job advert that looks for it

[kisho]

are there free versions/alternatives available of those?