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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

In this blog, we’ll compare the three leading public cloud providers, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. A subsidiary of Amazon, AWS was launched in 2006 and offers on-demand cloud computing services on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Microsoft Azure Overview.

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Desktop High-Performance Computing

Dzone - DevOps

Ever since Amazon Web Services debuted in 2008, builders of complex engineering software systems have had increasingly powerful ways to scale heavy computational workloads in the cloud. Unfortunately, not all engineering software packages are server-based, much less cloud-based.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO

Enterprises can’t move their existing licensed software to the clouds of Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure or any outsourcer relying on their infrastructure, and they would instead have to acquire new licenses from the relevant hosting service.

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Oracle adds compute services to its Cloud@Customer offering

CIO

Oracle’s new compute offering could help the company broaden its addressable cloud market while directly countering the on-premises products from the likes of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Westfall said. As such, I understand over 80% of the Fortune 1000 use Exadata,” Westfall said.

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3 Common GCP Billing Challenges — And How CloudZero Overcomes Them

CloudZero

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google’s answer to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, is steadily gaining steam. Launched in 2008 — just two years after AWS — GCP has taken the bronze medal in public cloud services for years.

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History of Cloud Computing

The Crazy Programmer

Because Google also launched its search engine’s beta version in 2008, and in early 2008 Microsoft announced its Microsoft Azure for the testing phase, deployment, and even for the managing applications. Google also presented its Google Cloud in 2012, but it finally got available to the public in 2013.

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10 Reasons to Consider Cloud Cost Optimization Service

Mobilunity

The impact of cloud optimization on productivity is significant. AWS and Microsoft Azure, for example, have a lot of capabilities and are continually improving their products. You can optimize cloud cost by deciding which tools your company does not utilize and only using what you need. >>> Microsoft Azure.

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