Azure’s rise instills doubts in AWS shops

Microsoft's cloud computing platform is experiencing a surge in adoption, raising fears in some companies of betting on the wrong horse. But the race did not start

 The "State of the Cloud" RightScale report is now available and has been well covered by InfoWorld, so it will not give you the summary here. But there are important findings that I want to highlight in terms of business impact.

According to the report:

• In respondents, RightScale found that Azure has increased overall from 20 to 34 percent, while Amazon Web Services remained stable at 57 percent.
• Google has increased from 10 to 15 percent to maintain third position.
• Within companies, Azure has significantly increased adoption: 26 percent to 43 percent. However, adoption of the AWS has increased slightly from 56 percent to 59 percent.

Companies are questioning the latter, as they have made a huge investment in AWS, but are now late for their support.

 Make it clear: Azure's success is well deserved. Microsoft was late for the party, but not so late that he could not do the good things around the adoption of his cloud.

And Microsoft has intelligently leveraged its relationships with existing companies, unlike AWS and Google. Companies that have their IT solutions based on Windows servers, representing a large number of companies, are fruits, inexpensive for Microsoft Azure. Background for the migration is also tempting, although you can also get Windows servers in AWS.

However, AWS has followed the growth of the market. In fact, the growth of AWS almost matches that of the cloud computing market in general. AWS will continue to set the standard for IaaS platforms, and it will not give up its market share unless they do something really stupid. I suspect it will not happen.

 Companies have to understand that the cloud computing market is dynamic and in its early days, so the volatility will be with us for some time. Only about 5-7% of the workloads migrated to an IaaS platform, such as AWS or Azure. About 20 percent should be migrated at the end of the year. We do not hit 70% - when we really know if your chosen platform has won - over several years. Today, it could be anything.

It is a fact of life. Companies should not panic if the chosen platform is not the top scorer or the largest producer this quarter. While the market is different, it is clear that AWS, Azure and Google Cloud IaaS are the platforms that are suitable for most companies. If you use one of these, you'll be in good shape for the foreseeable future. This is as good as it is on the Paris gaming platform.