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).