The data backed it up as Azure earned 95% of respondents’ answers for enterprise-level businesses while AWS earned 93%.Īs far as small and medium-sized businesses are concerned, AWS leads there 89%-84%. He added: 'AWS is the DeFacto standard if you're a small or medium-sized business looking to get into cloud, but if you're a mature company, which already has Microsoft products in-house, there's a good chance you'll go Azure.' 'You wouldn't say they're struggling, but it's not getting the level of engagement in the enterprise that Microsoft gets in highly regulated banks, the huge airlines, the huge insurance companies, and with its governmental cloud offering.' 'AWS is not getting the level of engagement with enterprise that Azure is,' he told Tech Monitor in March of 2022. Over the last year, AWS’s usage has been mostly stagnant while Azure saw a 4% growth in adoption.Ĭredit: Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud report Enterprises are using Azure more Īccording to Tech Monitor, Dan Kirsch, the managing director of Techstrong Research explained AWS isn’t being used by enterprises as much as Azure.

How was Azure able to take the lead over AWS?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is in fourth, with 44% of companies in the study using it and so on. Google is in third, with 70% using its cloud services, and another 10% planning to try it out. In terms of “significant,” “some workloads” and “experimenting” both AWS and Azure had extremely similar percentages in all three categories. AWS is used by 87% of those same respondents, with another 6% planning to use the platform. Google Cloud Platform lags behind both AWS and Azure by a good bit.Īs we can see in the graph above, Azure is being used by 89% of companies polled and another 6% plan to use it. They’re the names we’re all used to hearing a lot about in the tech world: Amazon, Microsoft and Google, among others.Īnd it may come as no surprise that Amazon has been winning the battle with their AWS (Amazon Web Services) which they call “The leading cloud platform.”īut, is it still the leader in cloud services? Azure closes the gap on AWS Īccording to Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud report, Microsoft Azure has not only closed the lead that AWS had for years, but Azure actually took the lead among many businesses.

Multiple big players are currently fighting for cloud control and command. Report | Azure edges out AWS as most-used cloud by businessesĪugby Rich Kurtzman, Brand Communications Fathym

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