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Leading Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM)

Afzal Badshah, PhD
7 min readMar 17, 2025

Cloud computing has revolutionized how organizations deploy, manage, and scale IT resources. Cloud platforms provide infrastructure, development environments, and applications as services over the internet, offering scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. This tutorial focuses on the leading cloud providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and IBM and explains their service models, academic significance, and practical applications. You can visit the detailed tutorial here.

1. Overview of Leading Cloud Providers

Cloud providers play a crucial role in modern computing by offering a range of services that help businesses and individuals deploy, manage, and scale their IT resources efficiently. These providers enable seamless access to computing power, storage, databases, networking, and AI capabilities over the internet. This section explores the leading cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud) highlighting their history, core services, and industry significance.

a) Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS was launched in 2006 by Amazon to offer IT infrastructure services to businesses. It pioneered the cloud computing industry and remains the…

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Afzal Badshah, PhD
Afzal Badshah, PhD

Written by Afzal Badshah, PhD

Dr Afzal Badshah focuses on academic skills, pedagogy (teaching skills) and life skills.

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