There are great reasons to use GCloud, MS AI, and the many other offerings out there. The ideal solution will vary by use case. Some considerations might be:
- serverless functions or full VM? With the former you pay by the second or minute, the latter is often by the hour or even month and many people use under 20% of the capacity they're paying for.
- what languages do you need? Many full VMs can support anything, but most serverless function hosts support very few languages.
- what frameworks do you need? Do you want to do a full install and dependency reconciliation, or have it done / managed for you?
- interoperability, API chaining, and marketplace. Algorithmia's language-agnostic open marketplace is pretty unique: you can use grab any of 4500+ APIs right from your own algo, without ever leaving the environment.
Happy to step through specific use-cases with you anytime! Just click the chatbox in the lower-right at Algorithmia.com
- serverless functions or full VM? With the former you pay by the second or minute, the latter is often by the hour or even month and many people use under 20% of the capacity they're paying for.
- what languages do you need? Many full VMs can support anything, but most serverless function hosts support very few languages.
- what frameworks do you need? Do you want to do a full install and dependency reconciliation, or have it done / managed for you?
- interoperability, API chaining, and marketplace. Algorithmia's language-agnostic open marketplace is pretty unique: you can use grab any of 4500+ APIs right from your own algo, without ever leaving the environment.
Happy to step through specific use-cases with you anytime! Just click the chatbox in the lower-right at Algorithmia.com