AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud: Which Cloud Platform Should You Learn in 2026?

Learn AWS if you want the most job opportunities in 2026 — it holds ~33% cloud market share and appears in 3x more US job listings than Azure and 5x more than GCP. Learn Azure if you work in enterprise IT with Microsoft 365/Active Directory infrastructure, or if you want to build with OpenAI models at enterprise scale (Azure OpenAI Service is the only path). Learn Google Cloud (GCP) if you focus on data engineering (BigQuery is the best data warehouse product) or ML/AI with TPU access. Cloud concepts transfer between platforms; the CLI commands and service names don't.