Choosing the right cloud platform provider can be a daunting task. Take the three most important, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform; each offers a huge number of products and services, but understanding how they enable your specific needs is not so easy.
While it's true Amazon Web Services is the clear cloud market leader, it doesn't necessarily mean it's the best option. Microsoft Azure and Google have their advantages. Let’s talk about them.
Advantages of Microsoft Azure
Integration With Microsoft Tools
Azure is closely integrated with other Microsoft tools: for organizations that use Microsoft tools like SharePoint, Office 365 and Outlook, investing in a cloud platform that seamlessly integrates with Microsoft products makes sense. In addition, with Azure you they take advantage of the well-established support structure within Microsoft and company-provided resources and write applications in the same programming languages you've used for Windows apps. Considering the huge ecosystem of Windows developers, this makes it easy to find developers with the skills to create applications for the platform.
Scalability and Flexibility
Using Azure, you can easily create applications that run reliably and scale from 10 to 10 thousand or even 10 million users. Azure Storage provides scalable, secure, performance-efficient storage services in the cloud.
IaaS and PaaS
Azure boasts an enticing combination of IaaS (managed) and PaaS (unmanaged) services. IaaS enables companies to outsource their cloud computing infrastructure and pay for only for what they use. PaaS allows companies to create their own Web apps and/or software without having to buy and maintain the whole infrastructure.
Security
Knowing that security is one of the biggest concerns for any company considering a move to the cloud, Microsoft designed Azure with this in mind. The .NET Access Control Service provides a way to integrate identities, and Security Assertion Markup Language tokens are used by applications to determine whether a user is allowed access.
Machine Learning service
Another Microsoft Azure cloud advantage is its Machine Learning service. Collecting large volumes of data is only useful if analysis is applied, but Microsoft successfully applies machine learning advances to its own business and its advanced analytics are available to a wide audience.
Advantages of Google Cloud
Innovation, productivity and less disruption
Google is by far the fastest company at distributing updates and innovations. They often send updates weekly basis, and sometimes, even faster. Whenever you introduce new updates, there’s usually a growth period, but in general, there’s a lot of disruption when new functions come along. Google manages this through delivering small updates continuously. Rather than large disruptive batches of change, Google delivers manageable improvements in a continuous stream, so users only have to deal with minor changes.
In addition, the mountain view company has continued to rapidly build out their infrastructure for Google Cloud Platform.
Real Remote Work
Technically, this is a benefit that is available to all cloud services. With Google, it’s a tad different, however. You can gain full access to information across devices from anywhere in the world through web based apps powered by Google Cloud. In the same way many users can contribute to and access projects at the same time as data is stored on the cloud instead of their computers.
Live Migration of Virtual Machines
Another huge advantage for Google Cloud Platform is live migrations of Virtual Machines, a very important differentiator compared to other cloud providers.
Summary
Concluding, if you are working with big data, using hybrid cloud or having a substantial software platform with Microsoft tools, you may want to evaluate your cloud vendor selection. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are two solid AWS alternatives. Both Azure and Google offer unique features and advantages, but the only way to know is to take a closer look.
If you have a project coming up that you want to implement on the cloud, feel free to contact us. We will be happy to help your business deploy.
About Emiliano
Emiliano is a Software Engineer with more than 7 years of experience developing Web and Mobile applications for some of the most important Fortune 500 companies
Nowadays Emiliano specializes as Engineer on the Mobile department of TISA, looking for implementing the latest technologies and frameworks to be used in future projects.
Beyond his technical knowledge and passion for the technology Emiliano enjoys playing Volleyball, Swimming and going to the Gym, he also like reading books and playing online video games.
