An Overview of Cloud Computing Services Providers

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1) Analyse of the leading providers of cloud computing services
In this context, three cloud service platforms are chosen and a comprehensive overview is
provided regarding these three cloud service platforms which include amazon web service or
AWS, Goggle cloud platform and Microsoft Azure. These three platforms are most popular
and leading cloud service platforms in the industry and also three of the most popular cloud
service platforms preferred by many leading organizations as well.
Amazon AWS
History
Amazon Web Services (AWS) which is owned by Amazon offers cloud computing platforms
on demand. It also offers APIs to individuals, companies, and governments according to
subscription plans and services are customized according to pricing of subscription plan. This
cloud platform was launched by amazon in 2002. However, in its early version, it offered
some limited tools and functionalities that were not compatible with requirements of industry
applications (Amazon Web Services, Inc. 2020). However, in 2003 in order to increase its
popularity for industrial applications, concept of AWS was reformulated publicly. In order to
do this, a paper was presented by Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black and in this paper, they
described concept and vision of retail computing that amazon aims to provide to its customer.
Some of the most important features of this cloud computing infrastructure were complete
standardization, support for full automation and capability to provide services such as storage
through web services. In 2004, amazon first launched its AWS services for public
applications and it was known as Simple Queue Service or SQS. After this launch, Chris
Pinkham along with Benjamin Black, lead developer for this project, designed Amazon
elastic cloud compute or EC2 which is the main compute service offered by Amazon in its
modern cloud services.

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Functionality
Some of the most important functionalities of AWS include support for data analytics which
helps to analyse application data and obtain insight form this data analytics that helps in
business process through effective consumer management (Cai et al. 2016). Along with this,
some other important functionalities include integration of mobile services, collaboration and
security analytics as well.
Capabilities
The reasons for popularity of AWS as cloud platform are its various features and capabilities
that make loud computing easier, secure and effective as well. Some of the most important
capabilities of AWS are the followings:
Faster application hosting in cloud
Advanced infrastructure of amazon cloud service is capable of hosting application in cloud
quickly. Cloud infrastructure in AWS is designed in such a way that it is not only compatible
with existing application, but it also offers similar flexibility in hosting new application
designed with SaaS platform offered by amazon (Amazon Web Services, Inc. 2020). Faster
and easy application hosting is what AWS is preferred by application designers and
organizations as well.
Migrating existing applications
AWS offers support for migrating existing applications. In order to run an applications there
are various requirements that need to be considered for example integration of operating
system, storage, database and other important services that an application requires. AWS
provides a virtual environment that is capable of providing software and services that an