The praise gets even higher: “AWS is a thought leader it is extraordinarily innovative, exceptionally agile, and very responsive to the market.”
It is the overwhelming market share leader, with over 10 times more cloud IaaS compute capacity in use than the aggregate total of the other 14 providers in this Magic Quadrant.” High Praise for AWS The report is clear about AWS’s strengths: “AWS has a diverse customer base and the broadest range of use cases, including enterprise and mission-critical applications. It’s remarkable but it’s true: a web-based business that got its start as a lowly bookseller has clearly bested the most powerful legacy IT vendors in the generational shift of our lifetime. While Microsoft holds a respectable number two position, the cloud market can be summed as “there’s Amazon, and then there’s everyone else.” Most of the other vendors could disappear and the vast bulk of the cloud market would remain. The level of dominance Amazon Web Services (AWS) has in the cloud market can hardly be overstated (see the graphic below). Amazon Web Services: The Undisputed Leader. Amid the report’s dense verbiage, here’s a summary of the two market giants that are most shaping the market. The report is a hefty tome whose complexity reflects the cloud market’s many technologies, with a handful of vendors combining/developing a variety of emerging technologies. One of the report’s three authors, Lydia Leong, is arguably the cloud’s leading authority. The moment it’s released, vendors trumpet it or spin it, and pundits tweet and pontificate about it voluminously. In the fractured, still immature cloud market, the research firm’s annual Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure is widely considered the authoritative report on trends and vendor ranking.
When Gartner speaks, the cloud computing market listens.
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