Originally published in The New Stack Update.
Every earnings season we realize how little is known about the competitive positions of the major cloud vendors. Instead of relying on vendor-provided information and surveys, we looked at data collected by HG Data, which utilized machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. To some extent, the results validated surveys that show Microsoft approaching AWS in terms of market penetration. Yet, this conclusion only looks at the breadth and not depth of usage. In fact, this approach totally ignores wallet share, profitability and the respondent’s plans to use a cloud provider in the future. With all those caveats, we hope you find this snapshot of the IaaS market valuable.
