At the end of 2016, it was found that cloud computing is the hottest skill an IT professional could have. Also, in the final quarter of that year it was seen that the revenues of AWS and Azure clouds had risen up by 93% & 47% respectively. Later by 2017, it was found that 18 million jobs were generated in cloud computing. In fact, in the last year (2019) AWS cloud was the market leader with a market share of 32% whereas Microsoft Azure had a market share of 29%.

This is why AWS off late has been one of the most demanded certifications in the cloud computing industry. Adding on to this professional operating in the Cloud Computing industry also know that about 90% of businesses across industries that have moved on to the cloud. This also enables sharing various resources across multiple areas that are operated from a single computer. Resulting to which there’s a rise in the number of applicants for an AWS certification.

However, cloud computing tools like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are not far away, both of these players have a market share of 29% & 10%. Which has been a reason for people to speculate why they should be going for any of the three while they are looking for options in getting certified in one of the three. In the below-given image you’d find some ways illustrating how these three cloud computing tools are different from one another.



Computers are computers' fundamental role containing services related to compute workloads. An effective cloud provider has the ability to scale thousands of nodes in just a few minutes. Amazon EC2 provides core computing services to configure VM (Virtual Machines) with the use of custom or pre-configured AMIs while Azure provides a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk), which is similar to Amazon’s AMI to configure VM. Google provides Google Compute Engine to introduce cloud computing services. On the basis of services provided by the computer domain, the difference between the top three public clouds is given by the following table.

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So which one of the should you be opting for an organization?

Just like humans, every organization is unique from each other the way they think, act, operate and deal with their clients. This where making a choice for a cloud computing tool can play a huge role. A cloud computing expert can help an organization in identifying which cloud should they be opting for.

Public cloud: Consists of SaaS services that are offered to users available on the net. It is the most economical option for the organizations since service providers not only offer SaaS services but also bare the cost of the infrastructure and the bandwidth. Such providers have limited configurations and the cost of it is defined by its capacity. This is offered by providers like Microsoft Azure, Adobe Creative Cloud, AWS Saas, etc.

Private cloud: Is generally used by MNCs or large sized organizations. Where it manages the data centers for specific businesses and IT needs. Private cloud is flexible in nature for providing more control, scalability, and customizability while securing assets and improving operations. This includes cloud vendors like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), BlueLock Virtual Private Clouds, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, etc.

Hybrid cloud: Is a combination of both private and public clouds. It equips organizations to take advantage of the public cloud when demanded to migrate the workload. For example, businesses can use the public cloud to run heavy-duty applications like emails. Private cloud, on the other hand, is used by the organizations to offload sensitive material like the financial data, data recovery and by the scheduled date of maintenance and when there's a rise in demand. This includes cloud vendors like AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Google, VMware Clouds, etc.

So now when an organization knows which kind of cloud do they need they will have various factors influencing their decision in taking up a vendor. This comprises of elements like:-

One time and ongoing cost for taking up any of these clouds.
Features that we need from this cloud
Storage required
Support from the provider

Note: GCP is free of cost yet most organizations don’t opt for it this is because it lacks most of the features that AWS and Azure has with them. However, GCP off late has gained popularity because this is something that has helped small organizations and start ups in offloading their data on the web.