Introduction to cloud platforms
If you need an intro/introduction to any of the following cloud platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Heroku, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, please watch my videos on my YouTube playlist “Introduction to cloud platforms”.
Introduction to AWS
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
These cloud computing web services provide distributed computing processing capacity and software tools via AWS server farms.
One of these services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows users to have at their disposal a virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet.
AWS’s virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer, including hardware central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing; local/RAM memory; hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, and customer relationship management (CRM).
AWS services are delivered to customers via a network of AWS server farms located throughout the world.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
Introduction to Azure
Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure, is a cloud computing service operated by Microsoft for application management via Microsoft-managed data centers.
It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.
Azure, announced at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008, went by the internal project codename “Project Red Dog”, and formally released in February 2010, as Windows Azure before being renamed to Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014.
Content source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure
Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive, and YouTube.
Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning.
Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.
Google Cloud Platform provides infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and serverless computing environments.
In April 2008, Google announced App Engine, a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers, which was the first cloud computing service from the company.
The service became generally available in November 2011.
Since the announcement of App Engine, Google added multiple cloud services to the platform.
Content source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform
Introduction to Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages.
One of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.
For this reason, Heroku is said to be a polyglot platform as it has features for a developer to build, run and scale applications in a similar manner across most languages.
Heroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2010 for $212 million.
Content source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
Introduction to DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean, Inc. is an American cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in New York City with data centers worldwide.
DigitalOcean provides developers, startups, and SMBs with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.
DigitalOcean also runs Hacktoberfest, a one month-long celebration of open source software held in October.
Each year it partners with different software companies, including past partners like GitHub, Twilio, Dev.to, Intel, AppWrite, and DeepSource.
Content source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalOcean
Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers.
The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.
Oracle Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Data as a Service (DaaS).
These services are used to build, deploy, integrate, and extend applications in the cloud.
This platform supports numerous open standards (SQL, HTML5, REST, etc.), open-source applications (Kubernetes, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, MySQL, Terraform, etc.), and a variety of programming languages, databases, tools, and frameworks including Oracle-specific, Open Source, and third-party software and systems.
Oracle Cloud is available in 37 regions as of March 2022, including North America, South America, UK, European Union, Middle East, Africa, India, Australia, Korea, and Japan.
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