Microsoft gains competitive edge over AWS in cloud computing market
Microsoft | January 16, 2018
While Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have both been deemed leaders in infrastructure-as-a-services (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) segments, the former is gaining a competitive edge over the latter, according to research from KeyBanc analysts cited by CNBC. Microsoft clenched the win over AWS for the fourth quarter of 2017. While AWS share dropped from 68% to 62% in the quarter, Microsoft Azure market share in the cloud computing market increased from 16% to 20%. Google’s share also increased from 10% to 12%, according to the researchers.