Cloud provider comparison 2024: VM Performance / Price

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Google Cloud Platform Landing Page

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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud provides flexible infrastructure, end-to-security, modern productivity, and intelligent insights engineered to help your business thrive.

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) follows AWS quite closely, providing mostly equivalent services, but lags in market share (3rd place, after Microsoft Azure). GCP does have one of the most interesting compute cloud offerings in respect to configurability and range of different instance types. However, this variety makes it harder to choose the right one for the task, which is exactly what prompted me to start benchmarking all the available types.

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Microsoft SQL Server Landing Page

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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform. Move faster, do more, and save money with IaaS + PaaS. Try for FREE.

Azure is the #2 overall Cloud provider and, as expected, it's the best choice for most Microsoft/Windows-based solutions. That said, it does offer many types of Linux VMs, with quite similar abilities as AWS/GCP.

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Amazon AWS Landing Page

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Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pretty much originated the whole "cloud provider" business - even though smaller connected VM providers predated it significantly (e.g. Linode comes to mind) - and still dominates the market. The AWS platform offers extensive services, but, of course, we are only looking at their EC2 offerings for this comparison.

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