Week 9 - Cloud Service Providers

Greetings IT Bloggers!!
We are in Week 9 of the Cloud Computing and Governance blogging journey through Bellevue University.  This week I want to discuss the leading front of Cloud Service Providers.  Amazon.  In the brilliance of Bezos (Amazon CEO), he saw the transitioning of on premise data centers and thought "Hey...what if we took this brand new technology (Cloud) and implemented it worldwide in our data centers and offer it as a service to organization?". By doing this he entered a realm that would increase the value of his company exponentially.

Amazon is currently the leading provider and developer of Cloud services.  Their user base is ahead of Microsoft Azure, but Microsoft has a higher Annual Revenue in 2018. Some would think that this meant that Microsoft is outperforming Amazon.  This is false.  Amazon takes most of their profits and places it directly back in to Research and Development and Innovation.  This lowers the annual revenue. Microsoft is sticking with what they know and taking all profit. 

The reason that consumers go for Amazon is because they know that it is at the forefront of the technology and they are getting what they pay for.  Also the price point is lower than most of the other CSPs as they have a plethora of resources available that running out is not a concern and they can fit as many clients as they want onto their servers and storage arrays.

It is notable, however, that choosing to go with Microsoft is not a poor choice either.  They are incorporated into the most popular Microsoft software applications already and make it ready for enterprise usage.  But with that comes a more expensive solution.

At the end of the day it is the choice of the consumer but it is paramount to do your research beforehand.

Until next week bloggers!