This course compares the major public cloud vendors - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud - from a business and architecture decision-making perspective. Students learn to compare service categories, interpret vendor strengths and limitations, translate customer requirements into cloud selection criteria, and evaluate hybrid and multi-cloud patterns that span on-premises and off-premises environments. The course also examines AI, data, serverless, container, governance, and cost trends that shape modern cloud decisions. Students complete a staged vendor recommendation project rather than deploying resources.
COMP 1220: Cloud Vendors, Architecture, and Decision Analysis
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