Amazon EC2 provides resizable compute capacity with 1,160+ instance types powered by Graviton ARM processors, Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs — supporting workloads from web servers to AI training clusters. This guide covers the Nitro System architecture, instance families, Spot and Reserved pricing, Auto Scaling, security groups, placement strategies, and a comparison with Azure Virtual Machines.
Amazon VPC provides isolated virtual networks on AWS with multi-layer security controls including security groups, NACLs, VPC Flow Logs, and AWS Network Firewall. This guide covers subnets, route tables, VPC Lattice for service networking, Transit Gateway for multi-VPC connectivity, PrivateLink, hybrid connectivity, pricing, and a comparison with Azure Virtual Network.
AWS Lambda executes code without provisioning servers — scaling from zero to thousands of concurrent executions automatically and charging per millisecond of compute. This guide covers event-driven architecture, Graviton ARM support, Managed Instances, SnapStart, Lambda@Edge, 220+ event source integrations, pricing, security, and a comparison with Azure Functions.
Amazon EKS provides managed Kubernetes with automatic control plane management, EKS Auto Mode for fully automated node provisioning, Karpenter for intelligent scaling, and Ultra Clusters for 100,000-pod deployments. This guide covers EKS Capabilities, GPU and Trainium support, Fargate serverless pods, pricing, security, and a comparison with Azure Kubernetes Service.
Azure Virtual Machines offers 750+ VM sizes across general purpose, compute, memory, storage, GPU, and HPC families — with Cobalt ARM processors, Confidential VMs, and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows licensing savings. This guide covers VM families, availability sets and zones, Spot VMs, Azure Dedicated Hosts, pricing, security, and a comparison with Amazon EC2.
Azure Virtual Network provides isolated cloud networking with NSGs, Azure Firewall, VNet peering, Private Link, and ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity. This guide covers subnet architecture, service endpoints, VNet integration, Azure DDoS Protection, VNet Routing Appliance, pricing, security, and a comparison with Amazon VPC.
