Cloud services overview

Cloud

AWS, Azure, GCP

Author

Chi Zhang

Published

January 3, 2025

AWS

Amazon EC2: elastic compute cloud

S3 (storage), RDS (database)

  • AWS skill builder

Azure

DevOps with CICD

  • MicroSoft learn

Google Cloud

Big Query

Cloud digital leader exam: 55-60 questions within 90 min

  • Google cloud skills boost

Compute, storage, big data, machine learning, application services

Cloud computing

Virtualised data centers, 2 types of offerings

  • Iaas (infrastructure as service): raw compute, storage, network capabilities
  • Paas (platform as service): libraries - e.g. Google cloud

Saas software as a service - e.g. gmail

App locations affects availability, durability and latency (time a packet of information takes to travel from its source to destination)