There are several public cloud providers in the IT industries; among them, key players are AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. These providers offer an array of services, from computing, storage, networking, databases, and application development, to big data analytics and AI/ML, and so on.
In the following screenshot from the AWS console, you can see 100+ services that are offered in multiple areas. The highlighted EC2 service, known as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute, allows you to spin-up a virtual machine in minutes in the AWS cloud:
Public cloud vendors not only provide infrastructure, but also facilitate an array of services in various areas such as analytics, big data, AI, application development, email, security, monitoring, alert, and so on. With the public cloud, different technical capabilities become more accessible to the development team, which helps to drive innovation and reduce...
