This VMware white paper compares AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud services across compute, storage, containers, and pricing. All three offer similar portfolios, but differentiation lies in integration and discounts. AWS pioneered Reserved Instances and Savings Plans; Azure provides Reserved VM Instances with Hybrid Benefits; GCP offers Committed Use Discounts and sustained use savings. For compute, AWS has the broadest instance range, Azure emphasizes hybrid flexibility, and GCP offers custom VMs. Each has Kubernetes and serverless solutions: AWS (EKS, Fargate, Lambda), Azure (AKS, ACI, Functions), GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions). Storage models vary by class—block, object, file, archival—with regional availability a key factor.

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