From the course: Choosing a Cloud Platform for Developers: AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Current major cloud providers

Current major cloud providers

- [Instructor] Currently in the United States, the top-three cloud providers are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Other cloud providers include IBM, Oracle and Alibaba. We'll be going over the baseline functionality available in the Amazon, Microsoft and Google clouds. Note that we don't have to choose one cloud provider for all of our functionality needs. For example, we can use one provider for storage and another for running code. Each provider has a number of options to store your data and files. If you already use databases in your existing infrastructure, there's a matching option in the cloud. SQL databases are popular for storing data into structured tables. Cloud options for SQL databases include Amazon Aurora, Azure SQL Database and Google Cloud SQL. Not all data needs to be stored in databases. One of the most popular cloud services allows your applications to store objects,…

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