Introducing the examples
In this chapter, we will encounter three examples from three different cloud providers to see how to integrate third-party services into a Salesforce AI solution. All three of these providers offer a comprehensive suite of AI services and we will not attempt to survey these as each would require book-length treatment in their own right.
Instead, the examples are meant to teach you just enough about the services to understand what would be required were you to decide to adopt these third-party services as part of your application. They will also provide you with a solid understanding that you can use as a baseline for extending your own research in various directions.
The examples span three platforms:
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
These are the largest and most comprehensive cloud AI service providers in existence and odds are if you need something, one or more of these platforms will have what you are...