Gartner’s cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure

Grazed from Network World.  Author: Brandon Butler.

Gartner IaaS Research Director Kyle Hilgendorf says one of the most common questions he gets from enterprise customers looking to go to the cloud is: AWS or Azure?  Amazon Web Services has been anointed the public IaaS cloud leader by Gartner and many others, but over the past year or so Satya Nadella’s Microsoft has made significant advancements to its public cloud platform. AWS now has competition.

AWS clearly has a lead, and a pretty sizeable one, Hilgendorf says. But, it’s a marathon, not a sprint: “The race has just begun, and it’s a very long race,” Hilgendorf said during a presentation at AWS re:Invent comparing the two providers…

Hilgendorf conducted in-depth research of both IaaS public clouds, evaluating each against a 205-point criteria assessment across eight categories: compute, storage networking, security/access, service offerings, support levels, management and price/billing. Gartner organizes them into groups of required, preferred and optional features for enterprise customers…

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