Gartner defines strategic cloud platform services (SCPS) as standardized, automated, public cloud offerings integrating infrastructure services (e.g., computing, network and storage), platform services (e.g., application, data and value-added services such as AI/ML) and transformation services (resources to help customers adopt cloud-oriented IT delivery models). Although owned by the service provider, infrastructure and platform services may be hosted in providers’ infrastructures or customers’ data centers. Services should be elastically scalable, metered by use, and consumable via web-based interfaces and programmable APIs. Transformation programs may be delivered by automated, self-service interfaces, and managed interactions facilitated by account teams/partners.
"Amazon web services: Powerful scalability and flexibility, but a steep learning curve."
From my experience with Amazon Web services, I have found it to be an incredibly powerful and versatile platform, though it comes with advantages and challenges. Here are some personal insights. Strength Wide Range of services: AWS covers an extensive range of services that cover everything from basic cloud storage and computing to specialized tools like machine learning, AI and analytics. This has allowed me to work on a variety of projects without having to leave the AWS ecosystem. Scalability: The ability to scale resources up or down on-demand is one of AWS's best features. Whether i am working on a small prototype or a large scale production system. AWS can accommodate changing resource needs without much hassle. Global infrastructure: AWS's global reach ensures low latency and high availability. I've been able to serve applications efficiently to users worldwide, thanks to its broad network of regions and availability zones. Automation and Flexibility: Services like AWS Lambda and the robust API's for EC2 and other resources have made automating tasks much easier. The flexibility in choosing services tailored to specific uses is great. Challenges Steep learning curve: The sheer number of services and features can be overwhelming, especially for those new to cloud computing. Learning how to configure each service optimally takes time, and it is easy to make mistakes if you are unfamiliar with best practices. Cost Management: While AWS is cost effective in many ways, managing costs is challenging. I've had instances where costs spiked unexpectedly due to overlooked resource allocations or underutilized instances. Cost monitoring required constant attention. Despite the challenges AWS provides and the exceptional cloud experience. It is robust, reliable and innovative
"Microsoft Azure- A great cloud computing platform"
Microsoft Azure is a great cloud computing platform by Microsoft. It provides options for Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It has support for different programming languages, frameworks and tools. One can create / configure Resource groups, Virtual machines, file storage, network security groups, Active Directory, Database services very easily in a short span of time thus making server deployment fast and easy. Azure works on Pay as per use model, this means you need to pay for the resource usage till the time it is being used.
"GCP - A great cloud computing platform for maximizing efficiency"
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud computing platform provided by Google. GCP has lot of features. One can host virtual terminals with the required operating system in the required region and stop the service as and when required on the fly. This helps in optimum utilization of services and thus helps in managing your elastic billing. The storage, network, database, compute can all be managed easily using the GUI provided by the platform. The billing is done based on the service you use and the period for which you use that service. They have support for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. GCP allows you to use database services using Cloud SQL service, open required ports for communication using Firewall service, have persistent storage created, use micro services based architecture using Kubernetes engine and more. One can have logging and monitoring also configured for reference analysis.
"Challenges and Solutions for Capacity Management in IBM's VPC"
Our company has worked with IBM Cloud for many years now and has had excellent services from them. We have even closed all physical data centers down and moved to IBM Cloud.
"Fintech Companies Discover Dependable Cloud Solutions"
reliable cloud solutions for fintech companies and local regulatory compliances
"Huawei Cloud's Comprehensive Features: From AI to Cost-Effective Solutions"
My experience with Huawei Cloud has been largely positive. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of cloud services that cater to a variety of needs, from computing and storage to networking and artificial intelligence
"Great, scalable cloud solution wire the ease of administration like on premise"
easy to use an understand solution that is maximum scalable
"New cloud platform"
Alibaba cloud service provides good flexibility in terms of cloud computing, it has various models of cloud computing and great network security, and new features are available while creating instance which is not present in others cloud computing services. in terms of pricing, it's very cost-effective.
"DigitalOcean is a key service for online services, including self-hosted solutions."
Absolutely amazing solution for many online services, with the ability to scale quickly and easily.
"Crossing the Cloud Divide: Tencent Cloud's Cost Optimization Success"
We migrated from the existing cloud to Tencent Cloud with the aim of optimizing costs. By also changing the architecture during the migration, we achieved a cost reduction of over 60%.
"The hybrid cloud scenario enables enterprise operation and development"
With the continuous development of the company's business,the company adopts the hybrid cloud platform to carry the unified data platform.By calling the API interface of ZStack,the private cloud is gathered into the cloud management platform,and the public cloud and private cloud are managed in a unified way,so that data can guide operation and drive business innovation.
"Very good cloud provider"
I worked with OVH for private and company projects, without any issues. Their public cloud is fast and reliable, the solutions adapt to our needs, and the prices are good.
"Public cloud is great!"
Public cloud services have quickly become one of the more useful products out here.
"Set up a virtual environment with skytap"
Skytap is a shared environment which multiple teams can use at the same time for development and testing purpose. User can just share the link of the environment with other team members and then others can start using it .This is very useful when teams are working on multiple versions of the code and issue has occurred on a particular version of the code In this case developer can directly refer that version of the code in skytap and debug the issue.
"Virtustream Enterprise Cloud : Raise the Bar for mission-critical applications"
Virtustream Enterprise Cloud is the best in class enterprise cloud which is built to run complex, mission-critical enterprise applications with a full suite of professional and managed services. It offers high availability and performance with SLAs, integrated security, and compliance solutions giving better returns on all the IT investments made.
"Great services and security"
this is really an awesome it provides a lot of cloud services where you can store your data or imortant data related to your company and it provides a high level of security to your data and documents.
"Simpler Cloud - High Performance Computing for Every Organization "
EC Cloud has advanced computation, reliable, fast I/O Services, and good storage solutions. High level of customization and production-grade operating systems. An Enterprise-grade cloud ready for every organization to helps in security.
"Akamai's CDN and Cloud Services: Unseen Potential Yet to be Unveiled"
The quality of their technical support and service is excellent. On top of that we get the most up to date business and technology related innovations.
"Increase resilience, and security "
Newly deployed, overral very good, no issues re contract , functionality is what they are contracted for , and the product delivers what we are after
"One company for all your needs."
One company for all your needs. Initially, we only used internet-related services. Having the ability to stay with a single company makes support easier on me as an admin and allows smoother integration.