Google Cloud: Projects, Data and the Parts That Stand Out
GCP is organised around projects rather than accounts, and its strongest products are in data and machine learning.
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What each of the twelve providers is good at, what it costs and where it fits.
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What an AWS Account Actually Gives You
AWS is less one product than a catalogue of a couple of hundred.
UpCloud and the MaxIOPS Storage Argument
UpCloud competes on storage performance rather than price. If your bottleneck is disk rather than CPU, that is a more…
Alibaba Cloud: The Practical Route Into Asia-Pacific
If your users are in China or South-East Asia, Alibaba Cloud is often the shortest path to good latency — and the…
Hetzner: Cheap European Iron, and the Catch
Hetzner gives you more CPU and RAM per euro than almost anyone.
Oracle Cloud: Strong Free Tier, Serious Database
OCI has the most generous always-free tier in the industry and the best place to run Oracle Database.
IBM Cloud: Enterprise Hybrid, and Quantum on the Side
IBM Cloud is aimed squarely at regulated enterprises running hybrid estates.
Azure for People Who Did Not Come From Microsoft
Azure makes most sense once you understand its account hierarchy and its identity model.
Kamatera: Build the Server You Actually Want
Most providers sell fixed plans. Kamatera lets you set CPU, RAM and disk independently across a wide global…
DigitalOcean: Simplicity as the Product
DigitalOcean deliberately offers fewer choices than the hyperscalers, and that is the point.
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