Cloud Price Comparison

Compute instances are servers on the cloud that you can use for running your applications. You can choose the operating system, CPU, RAM and persistent storage attached.

Comparison was carried on a dedicated, managed cloud MySQL instance. Managed databases are generally expensive components on all cloud vendors.

Cloud storage is largely used for storing images, videos, documents, websites etc. This storage can be public (accessible on the internet) or private (accessible only from inside the cloud platform). Storage is often associated with network transfer costs.

Containers allow you to bundle your applications, dependencies and hardware resources so you can execute with restart-ability, efficiency and cost effectiveness. They virtualize any operating system so you can run your applications anywhere

Serverless functions allow you to run standalone functionalities without needing a server. They get executed on demand. They are often accompanied by some sort of API management solution needed to invoke them. Know more

Load balancing refers to efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across a group of backend servers, also known as a server farm or server pool. While not needed in development or testing environments, they may be critical for production setups. Know more

An internet gateway is a horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC component that allows communication between your VPC and the internet. In some cases it can be highly recommended to have as an additional layer of security between your application and the internet.

A CDN caches your content across various geographical locations so that users accessing your services from that location do not see significant delays in responses. This is highly recommended if say your website needs to be accessed from different continents.

While not always used, monitoring and logging components can help you trace back issues, track unintended accesses and serve as a general audit tool.

Just to keep the study indicative and concise, we only focussed on Natural Language Processing APIs across the given cloud vendors.