Characteristics: The world??????????????????s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centres globally.

Maintenance & Development Focus: Configuring elastic compute instances (EC2), managing cloud storage buckets (S3), and orchestrating secure serverless architectures or content delivery networks (CloudFront).

Characteristics: A suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure Google uses internally for its end-user products, renowned for advanced data analytics and Kubernetes container orchestration.

Maintenance & Development Focus: Managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, optimising database instances, and securing network firewall configurations.

Characteristics: A rapidly growing cloud computing platform created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through global data centres.

Maintenance & Development Focus: Overseeing Azure App Services, maintaining active directory integrations, and ensuring seamless compliance with corporate security governance.

Characteristics: A cloud platform tailored specifically for frontend developers, providing zero-configuration deployments, global edge networking, and native optimisation for Next.js applications.

Maintenance & Development Focus: Managing automated CI/CD deployment pipelines, monitoring edge function performance, and configuring custom domain DNS routing.

Characteristics: An all-in-one web development platform that automates code building, serverless functions, and global content delivery for modern static and headless websites.

Maintenance & Development Focus: Streamlining continuous deployment workflows, configuring secure HTTPS certificates, and managing form handling and edge redirect rules.