What is the best cloud solutions as of 2017?

AWS vs Azure vs Google: What's the best cloud platform for the enterprise? It's the defining cloud battle of our time: AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Platform. Who can win the IaaS enterprise market? ComputerworldUK takes a look at the merits of the big three vendors The adoption of cloud computing has quickly become a key driving force for businesses today, as applications are moved out of on-premise data centres in a bid to cut costs and increase agility. Early concerns over security and data sovereignty have largely been addressed by the big three public cloud vendors: Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, with only the most heavily regulated businesses lagging behind in terms of adoption. his has fueled a crowded infrastructure-as-a service (IaaS) market, worth a total of $25 billion in 2016, according to Gartner's most recent statistics, which project the market will reach $45 billion by 2018. IaaS is a model where a third-party provider hosts and maintains core infrastructure, including hardware, software, servers and storage on behalf of a customer. This typically includes the hosting of applications in a highly scalable environment, where customers are only charged for the infrastructure they use. AWS has dominated the market since it started offering cloud services in 2006. A Synergy Research report from February 2017 puts AWS' market share at 40 percent, with Microsoft, Google and IBM, which they have grouped together, at 23 percent combined. But despite AWS’s dominance, Microsoft has quickly gained ground under the leadership of "cloud first" CEO Satya Nadella, building a huge global cloud network of its own. Then there is the internet giant Google, which has been busy building out its public cloud services and IaaS business under the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). read less