AWS more popular than Microsoft, Google and IBM's clouds combined

Amazon Web Services is the undisputed leader in the public cloud market, with a market share larger than the next three competitors -- Microsoft, Google and IBM -- combined, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. In Q3 2016, AWS had a share of around 45 percent in the public IaaS (infrastructure as a service) market, while Microsoft's Azure, Google's Cloud and IBM's cloud did not even get past the 20 percent mark. Things are expected to change in the future, as Microsoft and Google have higher growth rates in this space as AWS. So, we can expect… [Continue Reading]