From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Public Cloud Platforms

Normalizing the offerings

From the course: A Beginner's Guide to Public Cloud Platforms

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Normalizing the offerings

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- [Lecturer] So let's talk about what public cloud providers are out there. So what's important here is that we are just going to focus on the infrastructures as a service providers. So that's going to be Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud platform, Microsoft Azure. And we're going to also take a look at Alibaba Cloud or AliCloud. So there are four players in the market but they have very much the same technology as you'll see when we look at them. We're going to demo the technology as well. We'll see that they have storage capabilities, database capabilities, compute capabilities that have very similar patterns and even look and feel the same. So the key here is that we need to look at what the technology is in general, what it does, the general patterns, so we can discern how there are differences between the cloud providers. Then we look at specific cloud providers and what features that they have. So Amazon Web Services, market leader in the infrastructures as a service provider space, and they've been like that for a while. So they're ultimately the largest player because they innovated in the space. They were the first infrastructure as a service player of any consequence out there in the marketplace. And they've since held onto their lead. They provide the most extensive sets of features that we're able to look at. They provide compute services and storage services and database services, but also a wide variety of very different specialized technology as well. They have the largest number of points of presence or data centers out there in different countries, in different international points of presence, and ultimately they provide the largest capability in the ability to scale. They're very good at acquiring technical partners. Since they are leading, everybody wants to be in partnership with Amazon. So they have a large ecosystem, or people who support the Amazon Web Services Cloud. Ultimately, they have success points within larger enterprises, but also small businesses as well as developers, seem to adapt Amazon Web Services as really the leader in the industry. And ultimately, they're focused on large scale clients. Instead of the small businesses and the developers, they're also focused on the Global 2000 and also the governments out there. So when we take you through the requirements what you're going to need to do is basically use this as a model to evaluate your own needs, your own requirements, with the different cloud providers that we're going to show you. So we're going to look at these particular characteristics, storage, provisioning, management, governance, networking, compute, and security. And we're going to take a look at how our requirements or how our sample requirements line up with the capabilities of Amazon Web Services depicted in blue. Microsoft Azure depicted in red and Google Cloud Platform depicted in green.

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