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A Comparative Taxonomy and Survey of Public Cloud Infrastructure Vendors
An increasing number of technology enterprises are adopting cloud-native
architectures to offer their web-based products, by moving away from
privately-owned data-centers and relying exclusively on cloud service
providers. As a result, cloud vendors have lately increased, along with the
estimated annual revenue they share. However, in the process of selecting a
provider's cloud service over the competition, we observe a lack of universal
common ground in terms of terminology, functionality of services and billing
models. This is an important gap especially under the new reality of the
industry where each cloud provider has moved towards his own service taxonomy,
while the number of specialized services has grown exponentially. This work
discusses cloud services offered by four dominant, in terms of their current
market share, cloud vendors. We provide a taxonomy of their services and
sub-services that designates major service families namely computing, storage,
databases, analytics, data pipelines, machine learning, and networking. The aim
of such clustering is to indicate similarities, common design approaches and
functional differences of the offered services. The outcomes are essential both
for individual researchers, and bigger enterprises in their attempt to identify
the set of cloud services that will utterly meet their needs without
compromises. While we acknowledge the fact that this is a dynamic industry,
where new services arise constantly, and old ones experience important updates,
this study paints a solid image of the current offerings and gives prominence
to the directions that cloud service providers are following