Over the past few years, cloud computing has become one of the fastest-growing trends in the IT industry. Cloud computing allows companies to migrate and utilize computing resources within a cloud provider's data center. Cloud computing providers have a pay-as-you-go model, which means that you only pay for the resources you use. Some cloud providers allow pay-per-minute schemes, while others use a pay-per-hour structure.
There are three big cloud providers:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Amazon's cloud service
- Microsoft Azure: Microsoft's cloud service
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Google's cloud service
A service that cloud providers usually offer to customers is a storage facility. The AWS storage facility is known as Simple Storage Service (S3). Whenever a customer enables the S3 service, a bucket is created. A bucket...