Cloud Wars: AWS vs Azure vs GCP
45sOpens with a high-stakes three-way race narrative that hooks viewers interested in cloud computing dominance.
▶ Play ClipThis video compares the three leading cloud computing platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It examines their origins, service integration, availability zones, compute and storage tools, market share, pricing, and notable users to help viewers understand their differences and strengths.
AWS, Azure, and GCP are the top cloud companies with a commanding lead in IaaS and PaaS markets.
AWS launched in 2006, Azure in 2010, and GCP in 2008. AWS supports open source, Azure has a tense relationship with open source community, GCP provides managed open source services.
AWS simplifies combining services like EC2, S3, Beanstalk; Azure allows integration of VMs, SQL databases; GCP integrates Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL.
AWS offers 66 availability zones (12 more coming), Azure is available in 140 countries/54 regions, GCP has 20 global areas (3 more coming).
AWS EC2 offers wide instance types, supports Windows/Linux, HPC; Azure VMs include Linux/Windows with better security; GCP Compute Engine has custom machine types, per-second billing, carbon-neutral infrastructure.
AWS has Docker, Kubernetes, Fargate; Azure uses VM scale sets and container services based on Kubernetes; GCP offers Kubernetes Engine (Google heavily involved in Kubernetes project).
AWS: S3 (object), EBS (block), EFS (file); Azure: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage; GCP: Cloud Storage (unified object), Persistent Disk.
AWS offers RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, Neptune; Azure provides SQL Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL; GCP offers Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner.
AWS uses Amazon VPC, Azure uses Azure Virtual Network (v-net), GCP uses Cloud Virtual Network.
Q1 2021: AWS 32%, Azure 19%, GCP 7%. AWS charges yearly, Azure and GCP per minute. Basic instance (2 vCPU, 8GB RAM): AWS ~$69/month, Azure ~$70/month, GCP ~$52/month (25% less).
AWS offers spot instances, reserved instances, dedicated hosts; Azure provides developer pricing and hybrid benefit (up to 40% savings); GCP offers sustained use discounts and preemptible instances.
AWS: Netflix, Airbnb, Unilever, BMW, Samsung; Azure: 80% of Fortune 500 (Johnson Controls, Fujifilm, HP, Apple); GCP: HSBC, PayPal, 20th Century Fox, Bloomberg, Domino's.
AWS leads in market share and availability zones, Azure excels in enterprise integration with Microsoft products, and GCP offers competitive pricing and strong open-source support, especially in Kubernetes.
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In which year was AWS launched?
2006
02:43
Which cloud platform launched in 2010?
Microsoft Azure
02:43
How many availability zones does AWS offer?
66 availability zones, with 12 more in the pipeline.
04:32
What is the market share of AWS, Azure, and GCP in Q1 2021?
AWS 32%, Azure 19%, GCP 7%.
08:56
Which cloud platform offers per-second billing for compute instances?
Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
05:55
What is the approximate monthly cost for a basic instance (2 vCPU, 8GB RAM) on GCP compared to AWS?
GCP costs about $52/month, which is 25% less than AWS's $69/month.
10:22
Which cloud platform was significantly involved in the Kubernetes project?
Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
06:57
Name two notable users of AWS mentioned in the video.
Netflix and Airbnb.
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What discount does Azure offer to organizations using Microsoft software in their data centers?
Azure Hybrid Benefit, which can save up to 40%.
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What is the name of AWS's compute service?
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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Three-way race announced
Sets the stage for the entire comparison, framing the competitive landscape.
00:06GCP pricing advantage
Reveals that GCP's basic instance is 25% cheaper than AWS, a key differentiator.
10:22Notable users list
Highlights major companies using each platform, adding credibility and real-world context.
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[00:08] Computing the competition for leadership
[00:11] is a quite tough three-way race Amazon
[00:14] web services Microsoft Azure and Google
[00:17] Cloud platform clearly are the top Cloud
[00:20] companies who have a commanding lead in
[00:22] the infrastructure as a service and
[00:24] platform as service markets hey everyone
[00:27] I'm Lance and I want to welcome you all
[00:29] to this new video from Simply learn on
[00:32] AWS versus Azure versus gcp in this
[00:37] video we will compare and contrast AWS
[00:40] Azure and gcp based on a few related
[00:44] Concepts around these cloud computing
[00:46] platforms it will help us understand the
[00:49] functioning of these top Cloud platforms
[00:51] and will also let us figure out the
[00:53] individuality of each one of them but
[00:56] before starting with the comparison
[00:57] let's have a quick introduction of AWS
[01:00] versus Azure versus gcp so let's get
[01:04] started
[01:06] Amazon web services or AWS is a cloud
[01:10] computing platform that manages and
[01:13] maintains hardware and infrastructure
[01:15] reducing the expense and complexity of
[01:18] purchasing and running resources on site
[01:21] for businesses and individuals
[01:24] these resources are available for free
[01:26] or for a fee per usage
[01:30] Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing
[01:33] service that offers a collection of
[01:35] Cloud Computing Services for building
[01:37] testing deploying and managing
[01:40] applications in the cloud including
[01:42] remotely hosted and managed versions of
[01:45] Microsoft Technology
[01:47] Google Cloud platform offers a variety
[01:49] of Cloud Computing Services for building
[01:52] deploying scaling monitoring and
[01:55] operating a cloud
[01:57] the services are identical to those that
[01:59] power Google products such as Google
[02:01] search Gmail YouTube and Google Drive
[02:05] now let's move on to the comparison
[02:08] between AWS Azure and gcp
[02:12] we will be comparing them based on a few
[02:14] major parameters like origin
[02:18] service integration
[02:21] availability Zone
[02:24] Cloud tools like compute
[02:27] storage
[02:29] networking
[02:31] market share
[02:33] pricing
[02:35] and at last who uses them
[02:38] now let's move ahead and start with the
[02:40] first comparison origin
[02:43] in the year 2006 Amazon web services or
[02:47] AWS was introduced to the market
[02:50] and in the year 2010 Azure launched its
[02:53] services whereas on the other hand gcp
[02:56] was established in the year 2008.
[02:59] from the start AWS has been supportive
[03:02] of the open source concept but the open
[03:05] source Community has a tense
[03:07] relationship with azure
[03:09] on the other hand gcp similar to AWS
[03:13] provides Google cloud with managed open
[03:16] source services that are tightly linked
[03:19] AWS offers services on a large and
[03:22] complex scale that could be manipulated
[03:25] but Azure support is comparatively low
[03:28] quality whereas gcp's monthly support
[03:30] price is almost a hundred and fifty
[03:33] dollars for the silver class which is
[03:36] the most basic of services and is quite
[03:39] expensive
[03:40] now let's move on to the service
[03:42] integration of these Cloud platforms
[03:45] service integration is a set of tools
[03:47] and technology that connects different
[03:49] applications systems repositories and
[03:53] data and process interchange in real
[03:55] time
[03:56] AWS makes it simple for users to combine
[04:00] services such as Amazon ec2 Amazon S3
[04:04] Beanstalk and others and on the other
[04:07] hand Azure allows customers to
[04:10] effortlessly combine Azure VMS as your
[04:13] app service SQL databases and other
[04:16] services whereas users can utilize gcp
[04:19] to combine services such as compute
[04:22] engine cloud storage and Cloud SQL now
[04:25] that we know briefly about all these
[04:27] Cloud platforms let's have a look at the
[04:29] availability zones of these platforms
[04:32] because AWS was the first in the cloud
[04:35] domain they have had more time to build
[04:37] and extend their network but Azure and
[04:41] gcp both have various locations around
[04:44] the world
[04:45] but the distinction is in the amount of
[04:48] availability zones they have AWS now
[04:51] offers 66 availability zones with an
[04:54] additional 12 on the pipeline close to
[04:57] it Azure is available in 140 countries
[05:01] and is available in 54 regions
[05:03] throughout the world but Google Cloud
[05:06] platform is now available in 20 Global
[05:08] areas with three more on the way
[05:12] now let's move on to the next important
[05:15] factor which is tools
[05:17] now let's move ahead and have a look at
[05:19] the first feature which is compute
[05:23] elastic compute cloud or ec2 is aws's
[05:28] compute service which offers a wide
[05:30] range of features including a large
[05:32] number of instances support for both
[05:34] windows and Linux high performance
[05:36] Computing and more Azure on the other
[05:39] hand as virtual machines is Microsoft
[05:42] azure's core cloud-based compute
[05:45] solution
[05:45] it includes Linux Windows server and
[05:49] other operating systems as well as
[05:51] better security and Microsoft program
[05:53] integration
[05:55] in comparison to its competitors
[05:57] Google's Computing Services catalog is
[06:00] somewhat smaller compute engine that
[06:03] companies principal service offers
[06:04] custom and pre-defined machine types per
[06:08] second invoicing Linux and Windows
[06:10] support and carbon neutral
[06:12] infrastructure that uses half the energy
[06:14] of traditional data centers
[06:17] within the compute category Amazon's
[06:20] different container services are gaining
[06:22] prominence it has Docker kubernetes and
[06:26] it's also fargate service which
[06:28] automates server and cluster management
[06:30] when using containers as well as other
[06:33] alternatives
[06:36] Azure unlike AWS uses virtual machine
[06:39] scale sets of two container services
[06:43] Azure container services is based on
[06:45] kubernetes and container service uses
[06:48] Docker Hub and Azure container registry
[06:51] for management
[06:52] for Enterprises interested in deploying
[06:55] containers Google offers the kubernetes
[06:57] engine and it's also worth noting that
[07:00] Google was significantly involved in the
[07:02] kubernetes project providing an
[07:04] extensive knowledge in this field
[07:08] now let's move on to the next parameter
[07:10] of comparison which is storage
[07:13] simple storage service for object
[07:15] storage elastic block storage for
[07:17] persistent block storage and elastic
[07:19] file system for file storage are among
[07:22] aws's storage offerings
[07:25] yeah block storage for rest based object
[07:28] storage of unstructured data Q storage
[07:31] for a large volume workload file storage
[07:34] and disk storage are among Microsoft
[07:37] Azure core storage services
[07:39] gcp offers an increasing number of
[07:42] storage options its unified object
[07:45] storage service cloud storage also has a
[07:48] persistent disk option relational
[07:50] database service or RDS
[07:53] dynamodb no SQL database elastic and
[07:57] memory data store redshift data
[08:00] warehouse Neptune graph database and
[08:02] database migration service are all SQL
[08:05] compatible databases offered by Amazon
[08:10] the database choices in Azure are
[08:12] specifically wide SQL database mySQL
[08:16] database and postgre SQL database are
[08:19] the three SQL based choices
[08:22] now when it comes to databases gcp
[08:24] offers the sql-based cloud SQL and Cloud
[08:28] spanner a relational database built for
[08:31] Mission critical workloads now the next
[08:33] parameter is networking
[08:37] AWS uses Amazon virtual private cloud or
[08:40] VPC
[08:42] on the other hand Azure uses Azure
[08:45] virtual Network or v-net
[08:48] and gcp uses Cloud virtual Network now
[08:51] let's move on to another factor which is
[08:54] market share and pricing
[08:56] all these cloud services are based on
[08:58] comparative pricing strategies which
[09:00] means you need to pay on the basis of
[09:03] its usage
[09:04] according to Canalis the worldwide Cloud
[09:07] Market Rose 35 percent to 41.8 billion
[09:11] in the first quarter of 2021. AWS
[09:14] accounts for 32 percent of the market
[09:17] with Azure accounting for 19 and Google
[09:20] accounting for seven percent
[09:23] on one hand Amazon charges on a yearly
[09:25] basis and on the other hand Microsoft
[09:28] Azure and Google services charge on a
[09:31] minute basis and also all of them
[09:34] provide you a standard price for you to
[09:36] access these services
[09:38] AWS charges roughly 69 dollars per month
[09:41] for a very basic instance with two
[09:44] virtual CPUs and eight gigabytes of RAM
[09:47] and AWS largest instance with 3.84 TB of
[09:51] RAM and 128 vcpus will set you back
[09:56] roughly
[09:57] 3.97 per hour but in Azure the same type
[10:01] of instance one with two vcpus and eight
[10:04] gigabytes of RAM cost roughly 70 U.S per
[10:08] month and azure's largest instance has
[10:12] 3.89 TB of RAM and 128 virtual CPUs and
[10:17] it cost about
[10:18] 6.79 per hour
[10:22] compared to AWS gcp will supply you with
[10:25] the most basic instance which includes
[10:28] two virtual CPUs and eight gigabytes of
[10:31] RAM for 25 percent less and as a result
[10:34] it will set you back roughly 52 dollars
[10:37] every month and the largest instance
[10:39] that includes is 3.75 TB of RAM and 160
[10:45] vcpus and it will cost you about 5.32
[10:49] cents per hour
[10:50] Amazon other than this also provides
[10:54] spot instances reserved instances and
[10:57] dedicated hosts where you can look for
[10:59] multiple offers and discounts
[11:02] but for Azure it provides special prices
[11:05] to developers based on situations or
[11:08] even Azure hybrid benefit which benefits
[11:10] your organization up to 40 percent if it
[11:13] uses Microsoft software in their data
[11:15] centers
[11:17] whereas Google offers quite assorted
[11:20] pricing to its customer compared to the
[11:22] other two
[11:23] it gives you sustained use discounts
[11:25] which activate if you use the same
[11:27] instance for a month
[11:30] the pronable instance which is very
[11:32] similar to Amazon's spot instances but
[11:35] one thing is common in all three cloud
[11:37] services which is that they all offer
[11:39] long-term discounts
[11:41] now let's have a look at the last
[11:43] comparison which is the companies that
[11:46] are using them
[11:47] because AWS is the oldest player in the
[11:49] cloud business it has the largest user
[11:52] base and Community Support as a result
[11:54] AWS has the largest number of
[11:57] high-profile and well-known clients
[11:59] including Netflix Airbnb Unilever BMW
[12:03] Samsung missinga and others
[12:07] with time Azure is getting a large
[12:10] number of high-profile customers as
[12:13] you're currently boasts around 80
[12:14] percent of Fortune 500 firms as
[12:16] customers Johnson Controls polycom
[12:19] Fujifilm HP Honeywell apple and others
[12:24] are among its key clients
[12:26] Google Cloud on the other hand uses the
[12:28] same infrastructure as Google search and
[12:30] YouTube and as a result many high-end
[12:33] Enterprises trust Google Cloud HSBC
[12:36] PayPal 20th Century Fox Bloomberg
[12:39] Domino's and other are among Google
[12:42] Cloud's many clients so this was all
[12:44] about AWS versus Azure versus gcp and
[12:48] we've almost reached the end of this
[12:50] video now if I missed anything important
[12:51] please let me know in the comments
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