Comparison of the IoT Platform Vendors, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, from Users’ Perspectives

The largest Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform vendors are Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. These companies are known as the big three, and have all agreed to join the IoT domain and concentrate on improving the services on their IoT platforms. While these platform descriptions are extensive, users are constantly experiencing difficulties in making the right choice of which platform to use, between the three. This paper presents a comparison of the big three, using the constraints of hubs, analytics, and security. The study also provides some recommendations as to which IoT cloud platform vendor is more ideal, notwithstanding the limitations of the study. In view of these results, users will be able to more confidently select vendors, based on their demands and goals.