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A. LisdorfCloud Computing Basicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6921-3_9

9. Cloud Vendor Profiles

Anders Lisdorf1  
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Copenhagen, Denmark
 

Now that we have looked at the five big cloud vendors in isolation, we can start to make comparisons that will help us better understand the differences between them. There are many superficial similarities and differences, but it would quickly go too far to try to capture all of these. Rather, the approach taken here is to identify a few core underlying features that show the core differences that determine how they behave. These are customer orientation, vision, end user target, product packaging, and cloud focus. We go through the five selected aspects and, for each, characterize how ...

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