MSFT Azure Surpasses AWS – What?!

This was the headline that surfaced across media outlets last week when Sumo Logic published a new report that UBM conducted on modern applications. The survey looked at trends in cloud computing, DevOps and the ever important and evolving analytics space. While there were some obvious and/or expected results, I have to admit, I was just as shocked by the Microsoft Azure progress as everyone else here at Sumo.

Especially given the results of the survey differ from our own analysis of 30,000 Sumo users, which shows a massive lead by Amazon Web Services. Check out our ‘State of the Modern Apps for AWS’ report for more on this.

Regardless, the UBM survey is striking because it goes against such commonly held beliefs around AWS dominance. Certainly AWS is way out in front, but the survey results reaffirm a couple powerful ideas for the future of cloud computing and modern applications:

• Freedom of choice will always prevail. No doubt cloud adoption is now mainstream, but we are in the early days, and it is way too early to call this game. Customers always have and always will demand flexibility and choice. And organizations that focus on multi-cloud strategies as they embark upon their digital transformation efforts will likely prevail in the long term. This is likely the reason we are seeing more customers segment or stratify their workloads across different cloud infrastructure providers.
• Analytics systems must remain agnostic. Why? Because we predict that the analytics system will be the layer to manage and mask the growing complexity occurring from a diversity of cloud systems, applications, networks and devices. The analytics layer that supports digital initiatives and modern applications across all computing environments will ensure competitive advantage in the future. Furthermore, we believe that just as modern applications and cloud infrastructures require a different architectural approach and organizational process evolution, a new analytics platform is required which is truly cloud-native and optimized for how modern applications and infrastructures are built, run and secured.

Lastly, Sumo was born in AWS and remains an “all-in” customer and partner. Our markets align with the most innovative businesses in the world that are looking to speed innovation by leveraging the cloud.  But, as you would imagine, we’ll continue to pay attention to this debate and continue to serve our customers, as we do today, with support to run their modern apps on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, on-premise and any permutation thereof. 

For Sumo Logic, providing the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence regardless of where the workload runs will be our focus.