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AWS vs Google Cloud/GCP

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AWS Interview Online Test	Google Cloud/GCP Interview Online Test
AI service and Machine Learning: AWS has its own Al service, called SageMaker. Compared to Google, the AI offering of AWS is limited.	AI service and Machine Learning: Google cloud used AI chips called TPU which can run TensorFlow and other AI Libraries. The speed andperformance is quite faster compares to other similar services.
Available zones: AWS services are available in 21 different zones.	Available zones: Google Cloud Platform services are available in 20different regions.
Backup: Amazon S3 is used for secondary backup storage.	Backup: It has its own built-in Google Cloud.
Big data support: AWS has its own big data analysis tool which is called AWSLambda.	Big data support: Google Cloud Platform has its AI known as AI Firstfor data management for its servers.
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes.	Containers: Kubernetes Only.
Cost: It's on a little higher end in terms of compute and storage costs.	Cost: It's a clear winner with its competitive pricing as compared to AWS.
Disaster Recovery: Offers cloud-based disaster recovery services.	Disaster Recovery: Offers out-of-the-box DR or backup services.
Disk Storage: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).	Disk Storage: Persistent Disk (both HDD and SSD).
File storage: Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).	File storage: Cloud Filestore.
Hybrid support: AWS Storage Gateway offers managed virtual tape infrastructure for a hybrid environment.	Hybrid support: Relies on partners such as Egnyte for Hybrid support.
Networking: AWS has no tiered networking framework.	Networking: GCP has its tiered networking framework.
Pricing: Per hour basis.	Pricing: Per-minute basis.
Serverless computing: AWS Lamba.	Serverless computing: Container Engine.
Volume Sizes: 500GB to 16TB.	Volume Sizes: 1 GB to 64 TB.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides IaaS and PaaS services. AWS started in the year 2006.	GCP (Google Cloud Platform) provides IaaS and PaaS services. GCP started in the year 2008.
AWS is a secure cloud service developed and managed by Amazon.	Google Cloud is a suite of Google's public cloud computing resources & services.
AWS offers Amazon Simple Storage Services(S3).	Google Cloud offers Google Cloud Storage.
AWS volume size is 500 GB to 16 TB.	Google Cloud volume size is 1 GB to 64 TB.
In AWS, data transmission is in the general format.	In Google cloud services, data transmission is a fully encrypted format on the other hand.
It dominates the public cloud market by offering a range of cloud-based products and services.	It specializes in high computeofferings like Big Data but is fairlynew to the cloud scene.
Max IOPS per volume: 500	Max IOPS per volume: 3000 read 15000 write.
The main compute service of AWS is Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2.	GCP's primary service is Compute Engine.

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