Monday Apr 11th

Found many free courses on the Google Digital Garage but many are more geared towards career development or marketing effectively through the search engine. It makes sense that there are more courses geared towards AWS and Azure as they hold around 31% and 20% of cloud service market share globally, compared to Google Cloud Platform’s 6%. The GCP is mostly specialised for big data and machine learning and they have more data centres worldwide than Amazon, so they may soon improve. Amazon have the advantage of being first in the market, launching 4 years before Azure, but Microsoft has software on 4 out of every 5 computers worldwide and run 72% of servers as of 2022. Locally, it seems that Azure is the slightly more popular service.

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