In the latest Magic Quadrant report released by Gartner last year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintained its position as the king of cloud Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. Followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the three cloud providers are often referred to as ‘hyperscale vendors.’ What was more shocking about the news was that AWS had more than 10 times the computing capacity in use than the next 14 largest cloud companies combined. In addition, AWS announced a metric that was hard to contend with: over 1 million active enterprise users, not individuals. This was the one metric…
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