If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise. Hence most of the people just run to the vendor (or technology) they are either most familiar with or gives them the best price. This is all good until they discover that… well, that vendor is not what they have been looking for.
Lately I’ve been few times asked: “Which public cloud provider would you recommend to deploy our application?” Doesn’t matter how much I want it to be, the answer is unfortunately not that simple. Here are few questions to ask yourself while doing the research.