2019- New innovations of Azure, AWS and GCP !

While reading about the top cloud providers I went through quite a few interesting innovations by them which will prove to be ground breaking in 2020 for enthusiasts and enterprises. This article is aimed at giving you glimpse of those-

Amazon Web Services- They prove to remain the top cloud provider with 32% market share in Q3 2019. For AWS, the one ground breaking innovation is Outposts. It is the AWS experience but physically on-premises, solving both latency and compliance issues, while also being an expensive way to run your servers. Publishers estimate that “AWS will be a top four on-premises server vendor in the US and Western Europe within three years.” In the past it has been Microsoft which led the way in hybrid cloud, with technology like Azure Stack and Azure AD Connect. Outposts is not quite the same thing, but it is hybrid cloud, and looks like a tidy solution.

Microsoft Azure- It was in late 2018 that the company completed its acquisition of GitHub, but this was perhaps the key point of interest in 2019. In particular, Microsoft has done interesting work with devops, and the general availability of both GitHub Actions and GitHub Actions for Azure – which lets developers automate the process of checking in code all the way to deploying containerised applications, web applications or serverless applications – is potentially a strong driver for Azure cloud adoption.

GCP-  The biggest thing must be Anthos, announced in April, or perhaps the technology behind it – yes, Kubernetes (K8s), the container orchestration platform which is open source but invented by Google. Anthos wraps K8s into a hybrid cloud solution which lets you run applications on premises, on GCP, or even on other public clouds. K8s has huge momentum and represents both GCP’s biggest technical advantage and an awkward technology for AWS to navigate – even though AWS claims to be the biggest K8s cloud provider.

Trends in all three incline towards unifying on-premise and cloud giving the developer the ammunition to deliver faster outcomes enabling enterprises to do much more.

Some top trends from tech publishers-

1. IAAS growing with a five year CAGR at 33.7%, PAAS following with 29.8% CAGR.
2. Hybrid cloud adoption is 58% and moving forward fast.
3. Privacy and Security are two major roadblocks for Cloud Adoption.
4. 89% of companies already have adopted SAAS.
5. Average business runs 38% on cloud.

The above article is collated with data from various resources including discussions with CIOs, articles from various tech publishers and other sources.