Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform ranked most popular public cloud offerings.
A new online cloud usage survey conducted by Denodo finds that organizations are eager to adopt cloud based architectures in an effort to support their digital transformation efforts, drive efficiencies, and strengthen customer satisfaction. According to the study, the vast majority of those polled (76%) acknowledge using cloud with almost half stating they use Amazon AWS (47%), followed by Microsoft Azure (20%), and Google Cloud Platform (13%). Half of respondents are implementing a virtual private cloud, with cloud provider preferences closely aligned with those stated above.
Surveying 109 executives and IT professionals from a diverse group of technical backgrounds, the frequency with which organizations implement use cases varies widely but is generally consistent between the two most utilized cloud platforms; AWS and Azure. Participants cited using cloud analytics most frequently for both AWS (49%) and Azure (59%). “Cloud storage” was the second-most frequent use case on AWS (45%), whereas “cloud data warehouse” was the second most frequent use case on Azure (41%). Rounding out the top three use cases was “cloud data warehouse” on AWS (40%), and “cloud storage” along with “hybrid integration” on Azure (29% for each use case). Interestingly, “cloud CRM” was an unpopular use case among both AWS and Azure platforms as only a mere 5% said they use the cloud for this purpose.