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AI in the Cloud: AWS, Azure & Google

Use big-cloud AI like a pro — Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, Google Vertex AI — with free credits and billing safety.

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Renting a kitchen instead of buying one 🍳

Imagine you run a tiny tiffin service. You could buy a giant industrial kitchen — huge, costly, mostly idle. Or you could rent a shared kitchen by the hour and pay only when you cook. Cloud AI is the rented kitchen. Instead of buying expensive GPU computers to run big AI models yourself, you call a model that already lives on a company's servers, and you pay a small amount per token (the little chunks of text the model reads and writes). No machine to buy, no setup — just send a request and get an answer back.

When does a kirana-size project actually need it? 🛒

Free first, always. If you are just chatting, learning, or making a few replies a day, the free consumer apps and free local tools you already know are plenty — no cloud bill needed. You reach for cloud AI only when you are building software: a website or app that must call a model automatically, many times, for many users. A shopkeeper answering ten WhatsApp messages by hand needs no cloud. A shop chatbot that replies to a thousand customers on its own does. Rule of thumb: a human clicking buttons = free tools; a program calling the model = cloud API.

A human clickingfree apps + local toolsno cloud billA program callingcloud API, many userspay per token
💡 Start free. Reach for a paid cloud model only when a program — not a person — must call the model many times. 💸

The three big clouds, and "deploy" ☁️

Three giants run most of the world's AI clouds: Amazon (its AI service is called Amazon Bedrock), Microsoft (Microsoft Foundry, formerly Azure AI), and Google (Google AI Studio for prototyping, Vertex AI for production). All three let you call top models, including Anthropic's Claude, through one API. One word you will hear everywhere is deploy: it just means "make your app or model live and reachable" — moving it from your laptop, where only you can use it, onto servers where your users can actually reach it. Building locally is practice; deploying is opening the shop.

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