Amazon Web Services (AWS) is often touted as the leader in the cloud computing space. Gartner has named them a leader in their magic quadrant for Infrastructure and Platform services for ten years in a row. They have a large service offering, and companies of all sizes use AWS for their cloud environments.
IBM services are designed to cater specific use cases. This is another reason why IBM cloud and other services are not that popular among the masses compared to the other giants.
AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Azure machines are grouped into cloud service and respond to the same domain name with various ports whereas the AWS machine can be accessed separately. Azure has a virtual network cloud whereas AWS has Virtual Private Cloud. Azure has 140 availability zone whereas AWS has 61 availability zone.
A cloud is a type of a server, which is remote (usually in Data Centers), meaning you access it via the internet. You are renting the server space, rather than owning the server. A local (regular) server is one that you do buy and own physically, as well as have on site with you.
The cloud server interchangeably uses as cloud computing; in this rather than hosting the webpage on physical hardware, a virtual environment is created, and multiple servers used to provide space and resources to your webpage.
The company has six data centers in the United States, two in Denmark, and three in China. One of Apple's original iCloud data centers is located in Maiden, North Carolina, US.
Let's start with the basics: NUC is Intel's designation for their ultra-small self-contained personal computers. The acronym NUC stands for Next Unit of Computing, which perhaps purveys the idea that in the near future, home computers could become this small as a matter of standard.
Dropbox is an independent company, and a relatively small one at that compared to such a giant one like Google. However, Dropbox holds its own by having acquired 8 million business customers business customers who love the simplicity of its sync and share file features.
Drew Houston is the CEO of Dropbox, a file storage and sharing service that has more than 500 million users. Houston cofounded the company in 2007, when he was 24, with MIT classmate Arash Ferdowsi. The cloud storage provider went public in March 2018, with shares jumping more than 35% on its first day.