11 PUBLIC CLOUD EXAMPLES

To this point we have addressed the key concepts of cloud computing. In this chapter we consider some public cloud offerings. The principal ones are Amazon's Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft's Azure, and the Google's Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We consider the concepts of these three public clouds briefly in this chapter and then list a select number of cloud services and compare them with those available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. This is followed by a discussion of reference architectures in the next chapter that uses a web application as an example.