awesome-kubernetes/v2-docs/public-cloud-solutions.md

Public Cloud Solutions

!!! info "Architectural Context" Detailed reference for Public Cloud Solutions in the context of Cloud Providers (Hyperscalers).

Standard Reference

• learntocloud.guide: 3 ways to get hands on (AWS, Azure, GCP) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• cloud-mercato.com: Public Cloud Reference 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• cloud-mercato.com: State of the art of Public Object Storage Europe 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• medium: Cloud Agnostic Design 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• cybernews.com: Trouble in paradise: IT professionals unhappy with cloud' services [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• medium.com/adeo-tech: Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Survival Guide 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• digitalisationworld.com: Multicloud: Two truths and a lie [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• nextgov.com: Why smart multicloud policies are a golden ticket to modernizing' IT infrastructure [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• intellipaat.com: AWS vs Azure vs Google – Detailed Cloud Comparison [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• comparecloud.in: Public Cloud Services Comparison 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• medium: AWS vs Azure — Battle Of The Best Cloud Computing Platforms [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• youtube: A Cloud Guru - Cloud Provider Comparisons 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• xataka.com: El talón de Aquiles de AWS son sus altas tarifas de salida de' datos, y sus rivales empiezan a explotarlo: guerra de precios contra el gigante de la nube [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• xataka.com: Así se reparte el mercado cloud: los tres grandes tienen el' 63%, los siguientes 10 un 22% [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Dzone: DevOps Services Pricing: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• thenewstack.io: Is a Multicloud Strategy Right for Your Organization? [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• betterprogramming.pub: AWS vs. Digital Ocean vs. Hetzner Cloud — Which Has' the Best Value for Money? [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• cloudtechtwitter.com: Let's check about AWS v/s Azure Service [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• faddom.com: Cloud Computing Costs & Pricing Comparisons for 2023 [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• thenewstack.io: How to Evaluate Kubernetes Cloud Providers [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Dzone: 5 Hosted Kubernetes Platforms [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Pivotal.io: Pivotal Container Service (PKS), owned by VMware [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Digital Ocean Kubernetes (DOKS) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• AWS Kubernetes pricing [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Azure Kubernetes pricing [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Google cloud kubernetes pricing [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Rackspace.com: Managed Kubernetes [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• iot-analytics.com: The IoT cloud: Microsoft Azure vs. AWS vs. Google Cloud [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• investopedia.com: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage Causes Chaos (Dec 2021) [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• techrepublic.com: AWS outage: Your response to AWS going down shouldn't' be multicloud [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• techrepublic.com: AWS has gone down before, as have other providers; Fastly' has lessons to share from its own outage [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• Downdetector [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• sdxcentral.com: AWS Outage Stresses Telco Cloud Challenges [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• 20minutos.es: Amazon Web Services vuelve a romper Internet: se ha caído' ya tres veces en el mismo mes y le llueven las críticas [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• faun.pub: Multi-Cloud is NOT the solution to the next AWS outage [COMMUNITY-TOOL]
• hablemosdenube.com [COMMUNITY-TOOL]

Cloud Providers

AWS

Reliability

• (2021) jamaica-gleaner.com: Amazon outage’s future implications [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Post-mortem-based article covering large-scale AWS service interruptions. Discusses the dangers of hyper-centralized architectures and the necessity of disaster recovery models.

Azure

OpenShift

• (2026) OpenShift in Azure [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Architectural setup for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). Covers landing zones, networking structures, integrated AD capabilities, and deployment steps for secure enterprise architectures.

Federation

Standards

• (2026) Gaia-X.eu [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Core website of Gaia-X. Focuses on setting up an open, federated, and sovereign European cloud architecture, emphasizing compliance standards and cross-provider data portability.
• (2021) GAIA-X: A Federated Data Infrastructure for Europe [CASE STUDY] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Strategic paper from Germany's Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs defining GAIA-X architectural blueprints, data space compliance, and federated service models.

Multicloud

Architecture

• (2026) cloud.google.com: Compare AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Official GCP mapping matrix, translating and comparing AWS and Azure services directly to Google Cloud. Indispensable for cross-platform planning, migrations, and cloud translation setups.
• (2022) acloudguru.com: Multicloud Fluency: 6 reasons you should learn multiple clouds [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Strategic roadmap on multicloud architectures. Details the advantages of spreading workloads over diverse cloud platforms to avoid single-vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and meet data sovereignty requirements.

Developer Tooling

• (2022) acloudguru.com: Cloud developer tooling compared: AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: High-level comparison detailing developer utility services in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Analyzes continuous integration tools, managed developer desktop environments, and serverless workflow runtimes.

Emerging Services

• (2022) acloudguru.com: Blockchain cloud comparison: What is blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS)? [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Deep dive into managed Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platforms across top cloud networks. Maps hyperledger infrastructure configurations and managed nodes architectures.

FinOps

• (2021) cast.ai: Ultimate cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021 [CASE STUDY] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Detailed comparative study analyzing compute, network egress, and storage pricing models of AWS, Azure, and GCP, giving technical leaders actionable data to configure cost-optimized deployments.

Security

• (2022) acloudguru.com: Cloud security comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Structured breakdown of the cloud security paradigms used by AWS, Azure, and GCP. Evaluates differences in IAM mechanics, VPC design, managed firewall offerings, and baseline compliance capabilities.

Storage

• (2022) acloudguru.com: Storage services compared: AWS vs Azure vs GCP [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Comparison of storage offerings in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, mapping object storage, network file-shares, and block volumes across durability and throughput standards.

OpenShift (1)

FinOps (1)

• (2026) Openshift.com pricing [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight / Live Grounding: Detailing Red Hat OpenShift licensing and pricing structures. Evaluates self-managed deployments against co-engineered cloud-native offerings like ROSA and ARO.

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