The Big Four Clouds Compared (AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean)

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Why this matters

Each provider has a personality: AWS is the most complete and the most byzantine, Azure is the enterprise/Microsoft shop default, GCP is the data and ML house, and DigitalOcean is the developer-experience and predictable-pricing play. You will pick differently for a side project, a Series B SaaS, and a regulated bank — and the wrong default costs you both money and migration pain.

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Query each provider's compute catalog for a comparable small instance to feel the shape of each CLI and pricing surface.

Try it yourself

Run all four CLI commands and write down the on-demand monthly price for the smallest 1GB shared-CPU instance on each cloud.
Note which providers return prices directly (DigitalOcean) vs which require the pricing API (AWS, Azure, GCP) and form a hypothesis about why.
Search each provider's docs for 'free tier' and list one always-free service per cloud — these are your sandboxes for the rest of the course.

The Big Four Clouds Compared (AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean)

Why this matters

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Try it yourself

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