10 Key Takeaways From Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant For Cloud IaaS

Gartner has recently published the Magic Quadrant for public cloud IaaS. The report points us to some interesting insights from the public cloud market. Based on the analyst’s commentary, it is becoming clear that the market consolidation is almost complete.

When compared to 2017, Gartner made the entry criterion much harder and stringent. The focus has squarely shifted to hyperscale infrastructure providers. This change resulted in dropping more than 14 vendors from the list.

According to Gartner, there are no more visionaries and challengers left in the market. There are only a handful of leaders and niche players driving the cloud momentum.

Here are ten takeaways from this year's Magic Quadrant:

1) It is easy to get started with AWS but complicated to maintain

AWS is an undisputed leader of the public cloud. Its cloud platform is mature, proven and credible becoming a safe choice for enterprises. Customers should be aware of the fact that it is easy to get started with AWS but optimizing it for performance and cost is increasingly getting complex. With more managed service partners (MSPs) joining the AWS partner program, that designation is becoming less of an assurance of MSP quality.

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Janakiram MSV is an analyst, advisor, and architect. Follow him on Twitter,  Facebook and LinkedIn.