Question

- List at least three services for each of the below cloud platform and try to explain the services on your own words

1. Amazon Web Services

2. Google Cloud Platform

3. Microsoft Azure

4. IBM Bluemix

Answer 1

Amazon Web Services

1. Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Services

Through AWS, Amazon opens up it's highly optimized Artificial Intelligence solutions that are being used at Amazon. It provides a wide range of services suitable for developers with no knowledge of Machine Learning as well as experienced practitioners.  AWS provides pre-trained AI services for recommendations, forecasting, image and video analytics, advanced text analytics, document analysis, translation, text to voice conversion, speech to text conversion etc. that can be easily added into the applications without the requirement of AI skillset. For the experienced developers, it also provides the popular deep learning and AI frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, Apache MXNet etc. for the development of custom solutions. Amazon SageMaker equips the developers with the rapid building, training and deployment of machine learning models at any scale with high performance compute and security options.

2. Internet of Things

AWS IoT services enable the integration of numerous devices, collection of data, analysis and output actionable insights. AWS provides IoT solutions under the heads of Industrial, Commercial and Connected Home. Device software available in AWS allows to securely connect to devices, collect data, and provide intelligent actions locally. Control services allow to control, manage, and secure large and diverse device groups. Data services help to extract value from IoT data by analysing them and providing actionable insights. It also provides a built-in connection to the Machine Learning & AI services.

3. Cloud Storage

AWS provides scalable, reliable and secure cloud storage solutions for data. This is suitable for data storage requirements for big data analytics, data warehousing, internet of things, backup and recovery etc. Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic File System, Amazon FSx, AWS Backup, AWS Storage Gateway etc are among the popular cloud storage products of AWS.

Google Cloud Platform

Google cloud platform provides various categories of services namely Computing & hosting, Storage, Databases, Networking, Bigdata and Machine Learning.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's Azure provides a plethora of services from various fields like AI & Machine Learning, Analytics, Blockchain, Computation, Containers, Databases, Developer Tools, DevOps, IoT, Management & Governance, Media, Mobile, Networking, Security, Storage, Web and Windows Virtual Desktop.

IBM Bluemix

IBM Bluemix, now an integrated Blumeix and IBM Cloud also provide a wide range of services from Networking, Storage, Compute, Security, Databases, Analytics, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Dev Tools etc.