Speed, agility, time to market and other characteristics are table stakes for public cloud services. (cio.com)
AWS leads the market in public cloud services but Microsoft (msft) Azure is coming on strong and Google (goog) Cloud Platform has an array of data analytics and artificial intelligence tools that any number cruncher at a bank or insurance company would love to use in an official capacity. (fortune.com)
In a February report, Synergy Research Group noted, «Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40 percent, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market.» (inc.com)