Larger companies such as Microsoft and AWS even have data centers around the world. IaaS offers entire IT computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet. The key components of IaaS are used to replace existing development and test environments, virtual machines, website hosting, storage, backup, networking, servers, operating systems, middleware, data, and applications, and high-performance computing HPC.
The PaaS component of cloud computing offers a full development and deployment environment in the cloud, including dev, test, QA, debugging, and deployment tools and services.
SaaS is a software developed and hosted by someone else. Businesses or individuals are able to use them as needed. Today, the majority of top cloud service providers offer all of these services. In this article, we will compare the top cloud computing providers and their categories. Microsoft Google Launch year Geographical Regions 25 54 21 Availability Zones 78 countries 61 Key offerings Compute, storage, database, analytics, networking, machine learning, and AI, mobile, developer tools, IoT, security, enterprise applications, blockchain.
Compute, storage, mobile, data management, messaging, media services, CDN, machine learning and AI, developer tools, security, blockchain, functions, IoT. AWS is the most popular cloud service provider in the world. This service is used by millions of customers.
The following graphic is a list of the various categories of services available in AWS. As a customer, you will benefit from a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.
AWS security offers services such as infrastructure security, DDoS mitigation, data encryption, inventory and configuration, monitoring and logging, identity and access control, and penetration testing.
No other cloud provider offers as many regions or Availability Zones AZs. This includes 78 AZs within 25 geographic regions around the world. Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest-growing clouds among them all. Azure was launched years after the release of AWS and Google Cloud but is still knocking on the door to become the top cloud services provider.
While Microsoft Azure revenue is difficult to predict, Microsoft broke down its revenue of the last quarter into three categories, Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and Personal Computing. This makes Azure one of the most profitable cloud services in the world.
Azure provides the most advanced and maximum number of intelligent products and services. Furthermore, some of the most popular and advanced developer tools and compilers are available in Azure via various UI, workflows, and interfaces. Azure Security Azure offers the most advanced security products and services. The following table lists Azure security options: Azure Compliance Azure offers 90 compliance certifications for global, US government, region-specific, and industry-specific.
The following is a list of Azure compliance certifications. Azure Stack Azure Stack is a service of Azure that allows enterprises to run apps in an on-premises environment and perform Azure services in your datacenter. Azure Stack syncs with global Azure and upgrades when new services and updates are available on Azure. Azure for Government Azure for Government is an exclusive cloud designed for US government agencies including federal, state, and local.
Azure Government offers government exclusivity. Only US federal, state, local, and tribal governments and their partners have access to this dedicated instance with operations controlled by screened US citizens.
Azure Government offers the broadest and most compliance certifications. It runs on six government-only datacenter regions, all granted an Impacted Level 5 Provisional Authorization.
Azure global availability Azure offers more data centers around the world than any other cloud provider. Azure Certifications Here is a list of Microsoft Azure certifications. Similar to AWS and Azure, Google Cloud also offers similar services in various categories, including compute, storage, identity, security, database, AI and machine learning, virtualization, DevOps and more.
Oracle Cloud Oracle cloud platform is the cloud offering of Oracle corporation. Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud, founded in , is registered and headquartered in Singapore. Oracle does infrastructure. Oracle does platform. Oracle does database, which is increasingly autonomous.
With the addition of NetSuite , the company can cover small, mid-sized, and large enterprises. While Oracle came into as an afterthought in IaaS, it has had an eventful second half of the year. Oracle landed Zoom as a reference customer for its cloud and is seeing momentum into Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, said in an interview that the company is expanding its hyperscale reach for IaaS and plans to hit 36 facilities by the end of the year.
While SaaS is core, Oracle is also landing new users with infrastructure and a free tier. And everyone is looking for a fast, reliable and cost-effective compute," said Screven. In other words, IaaS players start with compute and storage and move up the stack.
Oracle can start at the high end and work back into infrastructure. Screven said that Oracle Cloud is seeing more developer interest due to a free tier. The big win for Oracle's cloud business will be SaaS and autonomous database services. Oracle's cloud is optimized for its own stack, and that will appeal to its customer base. Oracle's Cloud at Customer product line is also appealing to hybrid cloud customers. Oracle will put an optimized autonomous database in an enterprise and manage it as if it was its own cloud.
Will Oracle go multi-cloud and partner with frenemies? Yes and no. Microsoft Azure and Oracle are partnered to combine data centers and swap data with speedy network connections. Oracle isn't likely to partner with Google Cloud given its court battles with the company. Oracle isn't likely to cozy up to AWS either.
For enterprises, Oracle's cloud efforts will be powered by SaaS and it will be a player in other areas. It's unclear whether Oracle's bet on what it calls Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure will pay off, but its enterprise resource planning, human capital management, supply chain, sales and service, marketing, and NetSuite clouds will keep it a contender.
Klein is also looking to focus SAP and simplify. He's also looking to shift SAP's customer base to the cloud on an accelerated timetable. Instead of doing everything ourselves, we are co-innovating. We have always been the leading on-premise application platform. Thousands of partners and customers have built applications and extensions on SAP for almost 50 years. Our intention is to repeat that for the cloud to position SAP as the leading cloud platform to transform and change the way enterprises work in the digital age.
To get there, we have put a lot of work into our cloud platform over the past 12 months, and we will continue to invest in innovation. The time when SAP developed and engaged with customers in silos are over.
SAP's plan is to migrate its customers to the cloud faster and create one data model. Klein added:. We will bring the full force of our business applications and platform to drive holistic business transformation. By enabling our customers to seamlessly design, evolve or in win new business models with agility and speed.
To do so, all our main solutions will adopt the cloud platform and share one semantical data model, one AI and analytics layer, one common security and authorization model and the same application business services such as workflow management, with our cloud platform, powered by SAP HANA.
Process can be changed, enabling agile workflows. Innovations and extensions can be developed quickly by customers and partners accessing our open platform, using exactly the same data model in business services as our own SAP app. We are convinced that the real value driver of intelligent enterprises in the cloud will be the ability to adapt and on new business model holistically end-to-end with one consistent data model. Workday became a leading enterprise cloud player via human capital management software, but is expanding its footprint with financial applications.
Workday has more than 3, customers and the human capital management software vendor is increasingly adding financial management customers too. As a result, Workday is among the cloud vendors gaining wallet share , according to a Flexera report. The company is at an inflection point where it is selling more clouds and has a big market to chase as it courts mid-market companies.
Workday co-CEO Aneel Bhusri said that his company is entering an expansion phase that rhymes with the Salesforce playbook. Workday ultimately sees its financial platform being the equal of its HR footprint.
Planning and procurement are other new areas. Ultimately, Workday's SaaS challenge will be to sell multiple clouds to customers. Bhusri said :. They're 6 years older than us, one of our best partners. They went from being a sales company to a sales and services company to a sales and service and marketing company and platform. Now they've got analytics. We're going through that same journey and growth rates kind of ebb and flow as the different pillars take off. Adobe's cloud plans revolve around expanding its customer base and total addressable market as content and data increasingly merge.
Adobe has been a well-established cloud vendor among content creators and marketers, but a plan to focus on digital experiences and data management will put it on a collision course with the likes of Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP in areas like marketing.
So far, so good. The company continually expands its addressable market. For enterprises, Adobe's plan to dramatically expand its total addressable market can be a good thing -- especially if the company can be used as leverage against incumbent providers. The company is also looking to be a key part of your data and digital transformation strategies.
The move highlights how Adobe sees data integration as key to its expansion. And if a company cannot engage digitally with the customer, understand how the funnel, all the way from acquiring customers to renewing them, can be done digitally, they're going to be disadvantaged," said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. ServiceNow had a strong and emerged as a SaaS provider delivering growth and becoming a platform of platform for various workflows.
Although ServiceNow is best known for its IT service management platform, it has expanded into a bevy of other corporate functions. McDermott said:. Here are a few trends shaping the overarching environment for ServiceNow.
This unprecedented environment is breaking physical supply chains. It is exposing the weak links in the old value chains, illuminating how companies struggle cross-functionally to deliver the workflows that create great experiences for customers, employees and partners.
The world is experiencing a seismic shift from the obsolete business process evolution to the new workflow revolution. The game plan for ServiceNow is to be a digital transformation engine by connecting systems of records to be a system of action. One key example is how ServiceNow has aimed its platform at back-to-work management efforts. Among the key developments for ServiceNow:.
RHEL 8. Kyndryl and Microsoft forge cloud, digital transformation partnership. Freshworks expands into IT operations management running its familiar playbook. Xero posts half-year net loss as investment in product development grows. Workday adds scheduling, labor optimization tools for frontline workers. Here's a great tool for planning meeting times across time zones. Meta outlines open compute networking advances.
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Big Blue looks to Red Hat to juice hybrid cloud deployments and growth. VMware is the linchpin of Dell Technologies cloud platform. Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE is looking to connect cloud to edge computing. Cisco Systems. Azure has 54 regions and is more available than any other cloud provider.
Every Azure region has a minimum of three availability zones, enabling its customers to run two isolated copies of their applications. For VMs high availability and resiliency, Microsoft Azure provides the following four options: single VM with no replication , an availability set a VM with one or more copies within the same availability zone , an availability zone a VM with one or more copies of different availability zones , and region pairs a VM with one or more copies on different Azure regions.
The use cases of Microsoft Azure are diverse and manifold, thanks to the number of service offerings the company provides. Microsoft Azure has a strong managed service provider network with 32 partners on its list.
On top of that, Microsoft leads the PaaS segment of cloud service providers with a suite of tools, including Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Codespaces the tool that enables the use of a public cloud and developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code. Microsoft support is quite expensive. In addition, Microsoft Azure has a lower ratio of availability zones than other cloud service providers.
Azure is particularly well suited for organizations using Microsoft services. Microsoft Azure provides consistent services on the cloud and is a strong player in all use cases.
This includes edge and comprehensive cloud offerings, in which other cloud vendors are not that well-versed. Besides, Firebase, a Google-purchased cloud mobile Backend-as-a-Service BaaS , has grown quite rapidly and became widely adopted by developers.
Firebase remains a highly-demanded BaaS platform despite it being run on the top of Google Cloud. However, these steps were needed to scale the business and improve its profitability.
The Google Cloud platform offers products that can be grouped into six categories: storage, databases, computing and hosting servers, containers VMs , networking VPC, load balancing, cloud DNS , big data Big Query for data analysis, Dataflow for batch and streaming data processing , and machine learning AI platform. Google Cloud offers a pay-as-you-go model. A pricing calculator and custom quotes can help to understand the costs based on the workloads, locations and other variables.
Google Cloud is available in countries. Google Cloud has 76 zones and network Edge locations. Likewise, Google Cloud has a smaller pool of well-versed managed service providers than other cloud vendors.
These services have significantly influenced the deployment, scaling and management of enterprise IT in the cloud. Founded in to deliver platform support to the Alibaba Group, it is now selling different cloud offerings to businesses worldwide. In December in its quarterly financial report , Alibaba Cloud achieved positive earnings growth for the first time in 11 years, thanks to COVID which created a spike for cloud adoption and digitalization all over the world.
Compared with other cloud providers, Alibaba Cloud has a slower response time in locations like the USA. However, Alibaba Cloud has better CPU and memory utilization than the overseas cloud providers, making it more suitable for hosting large application workloads in the region. Alibaba spans over 23 regions and has 69 availability zones worldwide.
Additionally, it is the number one CDN in China with over 2, nodes in China and overseas nodes. It is the clear choice for enterprise cloud workloads located in these parts of the world or for businesses requiring transfers to China or Asia. Alibaba Cloud offers a broad set of PaaS and IaaS that are comparable in availability, performance and security to the service portfolios of other service cloud providers. Companies located in Asia-Pacific and China that wish to leverage cloud services at scale in this part of the world may opt for Alibaba Cloud solutions.
Alibaba is still further extending its infrastructure and presence to other locations in competition with other cloud providers, like in the Middle East. Alibaba Cloud is effective for hosting large apps and is scalable to sustain a peak number of users. Alibaba has a limited adoption in other parts of the world, except for South Asia. In other regions, particular services may be available only when using specific computing instances. Investment in international markets is needed for it to become a genuinely global cloud service provider.
Alibaba Cloud is more predictable than the public Internet as it has an unrestricted bandwidth and a better infrastructure within South Asia and China.
Oracle offers 65 cloud services, including the industry-standards like Kubernetes, Terraform and CloudEvents. Oracle offers an Autonomous Database, which is a service that leverages machine learning to self-repair and self-optimize, and that delivers higher performance.
The company also provides dedicated regions in data centers, edge computing, clustered databases, bare metal GPUs graphic processing units and database machines.
When it comes to payment models, cloud pricing models are complex. The price depends upon different factors, such as CPU and memory usage. Oracle has customers that historically pay for licenses for traditional software-related services and can get a discount if they decide to run workloads in the cloud. However, Oracle offers a pay-as-you-go model where the IaaS and PaaS services are charged only for the resources used. Oracle Cloud is available worldwide in 29 cloud regions.
Within every region, Oracle customers can distribute their applications within at least three fault domains, which shields them from typical hardware or power failures. Some of the regions offer three availability domains, with three fault domains in each, providing an additional layer of high availability and resiliency. Oracle Cloud has a strong partnership with Microsoft Azure so that their customers can run their workloads across the two clouds.
This ensures an additional layer of interoperability. Their customers can deploy the full stack of apps in a multi-cloud environment, preserving high performance and resiliency without a need to re-engineer the cloud architecture.
Plus, Oracle customers can also migrate their existing workloads and apps, or develop cloud-native applications that use a blend of Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure services.
Oracle has a comparatively small market share in the database PaaS, which is especially important for businesses that are historically committed to Oracle database services.
Oracle stands out among other cloud providers in its meticulous architecture and its cloud services that are pretty competitive with the ones provided by different cloud vendors. Oracle delivers all of its services simultaneously in all its global regions, unlike other cloud providers. The company also offers a Dedicated Region Cloud Customer for clients that have on-premise requirements and want to keep their data in their own data center and behind their private firewall.
IBM Cloud ranks sixth among the cloud providers. Instead of competing head-on against the major cloud service providers, IBM has doubled down on Red Hat a company acquired by IBM in , which provides open-source products for enterprises to expedite hybrid cloud services across its offerings. The acquisition of Red Hat equipped IBM Cloud with a technology base that includes security and portability across multiple clouds, and enables IBM to scale its resources and capabilities.
IBM hopes to increase Red Hat sales twofold in the next three years. In particular, just a few days ago IBM acquired Turbonomic a company that provides tools to manage application performance and Kubernetes. Turbonomic tools are quite valuable for hybrid cloud architectures that encompass cloud and on-premise workloads, and multi-cloud workloads.
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