Cloud Provider Comparisons: AWS vs Azure vs GCP–Compute

In Cloud Provider Comparisons, we take a look at the same cloud services across the three major public cloud providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this video we focus on compute, often one of the first resources organizations deploy to get started with cloud computing. Join Travis Roberts as he explores the different compute options across AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as the supported operating systems, availability and scaling, licensing, and costs. If you’re curious about how the compute services of AWS, Azure and GCP match up, watch on to find out!

Links to everything covered in this episode are provided below.

Timestamps:
0:00 What we’ll cover in this episode
1:19 An introduction to compute
1:52 The cloud shared responsibility for Paas and Iaas
2:29 Compute options across AWS, Azure, and GCP
4:34 Supported operating systems
5:31 Availability and scalability
8:59 Licensing
9:45 Costs

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Shared responsibility models

• Shared Responsibility – AWS: https://amzn.to/3xEsvqT
• Shared Responsibility – Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/shared-responsibility
• Shared Responsibility – GCP: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/gcp_pci_srm__apr_2019.pdf

Compute options:

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• Azure Virtual Machines: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/virtual-machines/
• Google Cloud Compute Engine: https://cloud.google.com/compute

Availability and scaling:

• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/autoscaling/
• EC2 Fleet: https://amzn.to/3ACRwVs
• Predictive scaling for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: https://amzn.to/3yFRVpr
• Amazon EC2 Regions and Zones: https://amz.run/4o4U
• Azure Virtual Machines scale sets: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/overview
  -Azure Virtual Machines autoscale: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/virtual-machine-scale-sets-autoscale-overview
• Azure Virtual Machines start/stop: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-solution-vm-management
• Azure Virtual Machines automatic instance repair: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/virtual-machine-scale-sets-automatic-instance-repairs
• Azure Virtual Machines availability: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/availability
• GCP Compute Engine VM instances – Managed Instance Groups (MIGs): https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups
• GCP Compute Engine – schedule-based autoscaling: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/scaling-schedules
• GCP Compute Engine – Autohealing: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups
• GCP Compute Engine regions and zones: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones

Costs:

• Amazon EC2 pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
• Azure Virtual Machines pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/virtual-machines/
• GCP Compute Engine – VM instances pricing: https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing

Series description

In Cloud Provider Comparisons, we explore and compare the same cloud service across the three major public cloud providers - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).