Jon Collins

GigaOm By The Numbers Survey of Primary Cloud Providers

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction and Insight
  2. Commentary
  3. Survey Data
  4. Conclusion and Action
  5. About Jon Collins

1. Introduction and Insight

All is not what it seems in the world of cloud computing. We have become used to considering cloud provision in terms of the “big 3” hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Indeed, these organizations do account for two-thirds of the cloud market according to revenues.

However, we could add the word “currently” to the above sentence. In the GigaOm Primary Cloud Provider survey, only 48% of respondents see one of the “big 3” as their primary cloud provider.

In addition, if we look at IT workloads, we can see that only a quarter of organizations have arrived at a single cloud or multi-cloud architecture – 37% are still largely on-premises, and a further 37% are working in a hybrid environment.

Organizations are nonetheless looking to move three-quarters of workloads to be cloud-based — this is an EU target, for example. Which begs the question — who will they look to for help?