Cloud Computing, A Powerful Force

Faced with the demand of modern businesses due to the current crisis, allowing millions of people to work remotely, it is difficult to imagine a world without cloud technology

The competition for leadership in cloud computing is a fierce three-way race: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud .

It is clear that for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) occupy a dominant position among the many companies cloud computing.

Amazon is particularly dominant. According to a 2020 report from the Synergy Research Group , Amazon’s growth continued and maintained its 33% share of the global market.

At the same time, Microsoft is particularly strong in SaaS, while Google Cloud, with its strength in artificial intelligence, is positioned for aggressive growth as the AI ​​market grows.

Elitech Systems will talk to you today about these infrastructure and cloud giants, facing the current crisis as well as their tools.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon’s greatest strength is its dominance in the public cloud market.

Its popularity is no doubt partly explained by the scale of its activities. AWS has a huge and growing range of services available, as well as the most comprehensive network of global data centers. AWS is the most mature, enterprise-ready provider with the deepest capabilities to manage large numbers of users and resources

The great weakness of Amazon is related to the cost. As AWS steadily lowers prices, many companies find it difficult to understand the cost structure of the business and manage these costs effectively when dealing with a large volume of service workloads.

In general, however, these drawbacks are more than offset by the strengths of Amazon, and businesses of all sizes continue to use AWS.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft arrived late in the cloud market but gave itself a boost by essentially taking its software on site – Windows Server, Office, SQL Server, Sharepoint, Dynamics Active Directory, .Net, and others – and redirecting them to the cloud.

One of the main reasons for Azure’s success: many companies deploy Windows and other Microsoft software.

Since Azure is tightly integrated with these other applications, companies that use a lot of Microsoft software often find it also wise for them to use Azure.

This helps retain existing Microsoft customers. In addition, if you are already a Microsoft customer, expect to receive significant discounts on service contracts.

On the weak side, despite Microsoft Azure being a ready-to-use platform, the service experience is not as good as expected given Microsoft’s experience.

Problems with technical support, documentation but also training are the biggest black spots.

Google Cloud

Finally, let’s talk about Google cloud, the last of the trio to have entered the cloud market

What is most interesting at Google is its offer in terms of containers, which is very strong, since Google has developed the Kubernetes standard that AWS and Azure now offer.

GCP specializes in intensive computing offers such as Big Data, analysis and machine learning.

It also offers resource level scaling and load balancing because Google knows about data centers and has a quick response time.

In contrast, Google ranks third in terms of market share because it doesn’t offer as many different services and features as AWS and Azure.

It also doesn’t have as many global data centers as AWS or Azure, although it is growing rapidly.

Conclusion

With the appearance of the restrictions created by COVID-19, more and more companies recognize the undeniable value of the cloud.

Even more in this time of crisis, where companies need solutions that they can implement and test quickly

However, many cloud service providers are contributing to the fight against Covid-19 in a variety of ways

Services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have allowed us to continue our digital life thanks to applications such as Zoom Video or Slack.