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title: "Metrics comparison summary | Grafana Labs"
description: "Compare all cloud metrics collection methods."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Collection method by cloud provider

| Cloud     | Quick start | Production          |
|-----------|-------------|---------------------|
| **AWS**   | Scrape Jobs | Metric Streams      |
| **Azure** | Scrape Jobs | Scrape Jobs / Alloy |
| **GCP**   | —           | Alloy               |

## Recommendation by scenario

| Scenario                       | Recommendation |
|--------------------------------|----------------|
| AWS production                 | Metric Streams |
| Azure production               | Scrape Jobs    |
| Quick evaluation (any cloud)   | Scrape Jobs    |
| Multi-cloud environment        | Grafana Alloy  |
| Want managed/workload identity | Alloy          |