Azure Surpasses AWS as the Public Cloud of Choice

A new survey of IT professionals shows that Microsoft Azure outperformed Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a public cloud provider of choice, although there is considerable overlap.

The survey was controlled by Sumo Logic, a provider of data analysis, and was created by UBM Research. 230 IT professionals were surveyed in companies with at least 500 employees.

The survey found that 80 percent of companies use or should use at least one public cloud provider, if not more currently. And given the numbers, many uses clearly more than one. About two-thirds (66 percent) of the respondents said they were using Azure while 55 percent said they were using AWS. The Cloud of the Salesforce application is in third in 28%, 23% the fourth IBM and Google reaches 20%.


More than half of Azure users of companies with more than 10,000 employees, suggesting that Microsoft's cloud is especially popular among large companies, according to the survey.

The result is remarkable, as it is the first study to put Azure for AWS. All other previous surveys have always found that AWS was the market leader in public cloud providers. Now IT professionals 230 do not make a major trend, but could be the first sign that Microsoft has taken the lead in this market. Or it could be an aberration.

In addition, the survey found that 67 percent of respondents use software as a service (SaaS), around four out of 10 use of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and / or a-Service delivery platform (PaaS) . The development of new applications, which is associated with the use of clouds is also popular: DevOps. UBM found that 68% of respondents plan to adopt or already DevOps.

DevOps is supposed to be a faster way to write and deploy new applications, and this corresponds to the survey results according to which 42% of respondents said they were deploying applications more frequently than in the past, while Only 8% of respondents said they were implementing less frequent applications than in previous years.

"Trends such as cloud computing and DevOps help companies to be more flexible and responsive to market conditions. However, as cloud computing becomes the norm in IT organizations, security issues persist," Said Amy Doherty UBM's technology research director in a statement.

Security remains the main concern of companies embracing the cloud. When asked questions about the biggest security challenges in the cloud has received the highest number of votes (27%) of the respondents. While most respondents (55 percent) said that public cloud services are safer than they were, only 6 percent describe security in the public cloud as "excellent."

Other damaged articles for cloud adopters are migrating applications and data to the cloud (15 percent), to get a unified view of the cloud and traditional IT infrastructure (8 percent), and application and Based operations (7 percent).

Amazon's cloud VP was on stage talking up

Amazon's cloud VP was on stage talking up AWS at the very moment it went crashing down

A few months ago, Amazon was an important place. He convinced Adrian Cockcroft to come to work for the company as vice president of the Cloud Architecture Strategy.

Cockcroft had consulted for Battery Ventures, the VC help find new companies to invest in the cloud.

However, he is best known for his years with Netflix as the first most famous client of Amazon Web Services. He directed the project, in 2009, to have Netflix built its streaming movie service on AWS and did not use its own data centers. It was a crazy decision at the time. Cloud computing at the time was best known as a bad, unreliable and possibly dangerous alternative to owning their own computers. When, in 2010, Netflix began to speak publicly about the decision, everyone thought it was a place between Netflix dumb and reckless.

"I gave him a lecture at a conference in late 2010 to 100 or more audience reaction .." You're crazy, "said Cockcroft Business Insider last year." [AWS] was small was unreliable, there were all kinds of things Were not there, we were basically helping to create what is now being declared to AWS, "if you do this, it will work. '' T work, 'and' we need this feature. '"

Even in 2012, AWS was not exactly reliable. Has been famous down on Christmas Eve this year, so the national news.

Flash Forward until the beginning of 2017 and the world loves it all and AWS and cloud computing companies are racing to put their businesses into it. AWS Cockcroft's main job is to talk to companies that do what Netflix did in their day - get rid of their data centers and go through AWS.

A growing list of companies do this like Intuit, Time, Juniper, AOL, Hertz and more all the time, said on stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

But sometimes the downside of relying on cloud services like Amazon can become painful obvious.

And unfortunately that was the case on Tuesday, where just when Cockcroft was run by AWS, a good chunk of the Internet had been destroyed (including the Business Insider site) because the AWS data storage service, S3, suffered problems Technicians.

The service has declined so AWS was even struggling to update the "health board image" that tells customers if the service is up or down. Read a message on this page (emphasis added):

Now we have fixed the possibility of updating the service dashboard update service santé.Les are below.General continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-ESTE-1, which has implications for various AWS.Nous services that work hard for Solving S3 we believe we understand the root cause, and work on implementation of what we believe will correct the problem. "

Even after updating this page to indicate that there was a problem, very distinctly AWS has not called a failure. It is called "high error rate data."

In the few minutes during Cockcroft spoke onstage promoting the benefits of cloud services from Amazon, you probably are not aware of AWS technical problems that occur at the moment, an Internet phenomenon was born.