Cloud Computing and Comparison based on Service and Performance between Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

Cloud computing is the on-request supply of computing resources through the Web with pay-as-you-use billing. Instead of purchasing, operating, and maintaining physical computers, hardware, and servers, cloud solutions providers such as Microsoft Azure of Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) of Amazon, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by Google offer cloud solutions such as processing power, memory, and databases on an as-needed basis. This research paper discusses the architecture and types of cloud computing services, as well as comparison of the performance and service among three main Cloud Computing platforms: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. All three systems have been evaluated in identical virtual environments, specifically micro instance of Ubuntu 16.04. The benchmark application Phoronix Test Suite 10.4 is used to assess performance, and the results for the Apache, Dbench, and RAM speed benchmarks are evaluated in this paper.