{"id":1515,"date":"2017-01-10T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2017-01-10T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:15:22","slug":"the-big-three-and-the-businesses-that-choose-them-clutch-study-compares-aws-gcp-and-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/the-big-three-and-the-businesses-that-choose-them-clutch-study-compares-aws-gcp-and-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Three and Businesses That Choose Them: IT Professionals Discuss Top Cloud Providers in New Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, Clutch<\/a> released it’s latest cloud study report that took a look at the cloud platform choices of 247 IT professionals. The professionals were surveyed with questions pertaining to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure – largely regarded as the top three cloud platforms, or “Big three”.<\/p>\n

Some key findings from the survey include, that the largest percentage of Azure users were enterprises, while the largest percentage of GCP users were small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Additionally, organizations listed \u2018better selection of tools\/features\u2019 as their top reason for selecting their primary provider. \u2018Stronger security\u2019 and \u2018familiarity with brand\u2019 tied for second place.<\/p>\n

Overall, organizations said that \u2018better selection of tools\/features\u2019 is the main reason why they chose their primary provider.<\/p>\n

Clutch Cloud Provider Survey 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

This result can be explained by the fact that each provider has its individual strengths, and thus, a customer may go to a provider for a specific set of tools or features. Brian Dearman, Solutions Architect at Mindsight<\/a>, sums it up: \u201cInfrastructure-as-a-service will reside mainly on AWS, cloud services will be on Microsoft’s side, while Google will dominate analytics. Even though every platform offers each type of service, people will want the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave Hickman, Vice President of Global Delivery at Menlo Technologies<\/a>, believes that the providers\u2019 strengths are more fluid, though: \u201cIf you do this survey in another 6 months, you will probably get different answers, because there\u2019s some leapfrogging going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cThe answers will be more on-par three years from now, for the same survey\u2026 Google is trying to catch up [to AWS] from an infrastructure point of view, while Azure definitely is catching up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other interesting elements found in the survey, include:<\/p>\n