This article was originally published on AI Study Room . For the full version with working code examples and related articles, visit the original post. AWS vs Azure vs GCP (2026): Best Cloud for Developers? Cloud providers compete on hundreds of services, but most developers use the same 5-10. This comparison focuses on what actually matters for side projects and early-stage startups: free tiers, serverless deployment, and developer experience — not enterprise sales features. Quick Comparison AWS Azure GCP Market share ~32% (#1) ~23% (#2) Free tier 12 months (limited) + Always Free 12 months + Always Free Serverless compute Lambda Functions Kubernetes EKS AKS Database RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora SQL Database, Cosmos DB AI/ML services SageMaker, Bedrock Azure AI, OpenAI Service Deploy UX Complex (many services) Moderate (Portal-based) CLI experience awscli (verbose) az (verbose) Pricing model Pay-per-use (complex) Pay-per-use AWS — The Everything Store of Cloud AWS has the most services (200+) and the largest…