CloudPick Docs

CloudPick is a vendor-neutral guide for making the right decisions in multi-cloud environments.

We do not recommend multi-cloud as a default choice. Single-vendor, hybrid, and multi-cloud strategies each carry their own costs and responsibilities, and the right choice depends on your workloads and organizational context. We explain why on-premises and network-segregation-centered operations were once necessary, and how control mechanisms can be extended in modern environments.

Each vendor’s official documentation only covers its own services. CloudPick places the major global cloud vendors side by side under the same criteria, helping you decide “what should I choose in this situation?” All content is grounded in official vendor documentation and industry standards (NIST, CNCF, FinOps Foundation), with personal opinions and speculation excluded.

Whether you are new to cloud or designing multi-cloud architectures, we provide reading paths tailored to your level and purpose.

Note

All technical content is based on official vendor documentation or industry-standard sources. When adopting or operating in production, always cross-check the latest official documentation from each vendor.

Where should I start?

☁️ First Steps

1. Getting Started with Cloud
2. Comparing Vendors
3. Regions and Availability Zones
4. Shared Responsibility Model
5. Understanding the Cost Structure
6. Understanding Multicloud
7. Vendor Selection Decision Framework

⚙️ Build & Operate

1. Getting Started with DevOps
2. Account and Organization Structure → Landing Zone
3. Cost Structure → FinOps
4. Well-Architected Framework
5. Disaster Recovery
6. Monitoring → SLI/SLO → Observability
7. Remote Access Management
8. Database Operations

🔒 Security & Compliance

1. Getting Started with Cloud Security
2. Shared Responsibility Model
3. IAM Overview → IAM In Depth
4. Secrets Management
5. Data Protection
6. Network Segregation and Isolation
7. Zero Trust
8. Compliance
9. DevSecOps
10. Security Incident Response

🚚 Migration

1. Application Migration
2. Database Migration
3. Storage Migration
4. Modernization
5. Vendor Lock-in and Exit Strategy

🤖 AI Adoption

1. Getting Started with AI
2. AI Platforms and Model Comparison — model catalog, Applied AI, inference costs
3. Prompt Engineering
4. Advanced RAG Patterns
5. Vector Stores and Embeddings
6. AI Agents — coding, desktop, and autonomous operations agents
7. Agent Adoption Guide — AX strategy, rollout, governance
8. LLM Channel Selection Guide — direct use vs. cloud-provided, seat vs. API
9. LLM Licensing and Cost Management — tiers, quotas, cost management
10. LLMOps — evaluation, agent observability, operations
11. Multicloud AI — cost, GPUs, vendor combinations
12. Physical AI — edge inference, digital twins, robotics
13. AI Security — guardrails, prompt injection defense

Target Cloud Vendors

Vendor	Homepage	Console
AWS	Amazon Web Services	Console
Azure	Microsoft Azure	Portal
Google Cloud	Google Cloud	Console
OCI	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	Console

If cloud terminology is unfamiliar, refer to the glossary alongside these docs.

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Where to go after this

CloudPick is a comparison guide that helps you decide what to choose. For how-to usage, tutorials, and hands-on labs for each service, use the official vendor resources alongside CloudPick.

Vendor	Official Learning Platform	Certifications
AWS	AWS Skill Builder	Cloud Practitioner → SA Associate → Specialty
Azure	Microsoft Learn	AZ-900 → AZ-104/204 → Specialty
Google Cloud	Google Cloud Skills Boost	Cloud Digital Leader → Associate → Professional
OCI	OCI Training	Foundations → Architect Associate → Professional

The References link at the bottom of each document also leads directly to the relevant official documentation.

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Documentation Principles

This is CloudPick’s first principle. All contributors follow it.

• Grounded in official documentation — All technical content is based on official vendor documentation or industry-standard sources (NIST, CNCF, FinOps Foundation, etc.). Speculative content is excluded.
• Neutrality — Vendor comparisons are expressed as neutrally as possible.
• Sourcing — Links to official documentation are collected in the References section at the bottom of each document.
• Managing volatility — Fast-changing information such as pricing, region counts, and GA/Preview status is pointed to via official links rather than stated as fixed figures. Each document notes Last reviewed: Month YYYY at the top.
• Terminology conventions — These documents follow Korean-language source conventions for the original CloudPick content: Korean is used as the primary script, with English glossed alongside technical terms or abbreviations on first use (e.g., 가용영역(Availability Zone)). Standard transliteration rules are followed (e.g., ‘메시지 큐’ is correct, ‘메세지 큐’ is not). Vendor names use their current official names (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID). The authoritative terms follow the glossary.