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AWS & GCP explained in simple English

Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Google Cloud Platform (GCP) explained in simple English

This guide is only representative, it may not be accurate and you should go on the official AWS & GCP websites for accurate and detailed information. It's initially inspired by AWS in simple English and GCP for AWS professionals

Category Service AWS GCP Description It's like
Compute IaaS Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Google Compute Engine Type-1 virtual servers VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer
  PaaS AWS Elastic Beanstalk Google App Engine Running your app on a platform Heroku, BlueMix, Modulus
  Containers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Container Service Google Container Engine Run your app inside container instead of server Docker
Network Load Balancer Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) Google Compute Engine Load Balancer Standard load balancing Zen Load Balancer, HaProxy,
  Peering Direct Connect Google Cloud Interconnect Dedicated connection DC++
  DNS AWS Route 53 Google Cloud DNS Managed DNS Service BIND
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Great work. Feedback/Ideas: "Type-1" could be a link to something that explains. Some provisions could be marked as "for HTTP servers". Some provisions can host any service and could be marked "for any TCP/IP services". Some can't listen on sockets at all, and could be marked as such.

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