Provider Guides
A practical overview of how AWS is organised: accounts and Organizations, IAM identity, regions and availability zones, core services by category, billing, budgets, and the service quotas that shape every account.
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How Google Cloud is organised: projects, folders, and the organization resource, billing accounts and credits, Cloud IAM roles, regions and zones, and the compute, data, and AI services teams use most.
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How Microsoft Azure is structured: Entra ID tenants, subscriptions, resource groups, Azure RBAC, regions and availability zones, core compute, storage, database, and AI services, plus billing, budgets, and quotas.
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DigitalOcean Droplets explained: teams and projects, shared and dedicated CPU plan families, images, snapshots and backups, regions, VPC networking, Droplet limits, billing, and the port 25 policy.
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Linode (Akamai Cloud) explained: account users and permissions, compute plan families, block and object storage, backups, regions, VPC and NodeBalancers, hourly billing, account limits, and SMTP restrictions.
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OVHcloud explained: the account and Control Panel, the Public Cloud, VPS, and Bare Metal product lines, OpenStack projects, storage and managed services, European regions, vRack networking, quotas, billing, and SMTP rules.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure explained: tenancies and compartments, OCI IAM policies, regions, availability domains and fault domains, compute shapes and OCPUs, Autonomous Database, Free Tier, pay-as-you-go billing, and limits.
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How Amazon SES is organised: verified identities, the sandbox and production access request, sending quotas and send rate, the SMTP and API interfaces, and the authentication and anti-spam compliance work.
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Hetzner Cloud explained: accounts and projects, CX, CPX, CCX, and CAX server types, Volumes, Snapshots and Backups, locations and network zones, Firewalls and Load Balancers, hourly billing, project limits, and port 25.
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How UpCloud is organised: accounts and sub-accounts, zones, Cloud Servers and MaxIOPS block storage, private networking, managed databases and Kubernetes, and how hourly billing and prepaid credit work.
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How IBM Cloud is organised: account types and enterprise hierarchy, resource groups and IAM, multizone regions versus classic data centres, Kubernetes and OpenShift, data services, watsonx, and billing controls.
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How Alibaba Cloud is organised: the international site and console, RAM users and roles, regions and zones including ICP rules, ECS instance families, images, disks, VPC networking, billing modes and quotas.
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