Comparison of Several Cloud Computing Platforms

TLDR

Cloud computing, encompassing parallel, distributed, and grid computing, has become a hot research area with many corporate platforms emerging, yet choosing among them remains difficult for novices. The study aims to identify the differences, characteristics, and advantages of various cloud computing platforms to guide users in selecting the most suitable option. The authors analyze and discuss the architectures, characteristics, and applications of several popular cloud computing platforms in detail. The comparison enables users to better understand the platforms and make more reasonable choices.

Abstract

Cloud computing is the development of parallel computing, distributed computing and grid computing. It has been one of the most hot research topics. Now many corporations have involved in the cloud computing related techniques and many cloud computing platforms have been put forward. This is a favorable situation to study and application of cloud computing related techniques. Though interesting, there are also some problems for so many flatforms. For to a novice or user with little knowledge about cloud computing, it is still very hard to make a reasonable choice. What differences are there for different cloud computing platforms and what characteristics and advantages each has? To answer these problems, the characteristics, architectures and applications of several popular cloud computing platforms are analyzed and discussed in detail. From the comparison of these platforms, users can better understand the different cloud platforms and more reasonablely choose what they want.