August 3, 2015
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June 25, 2015
Gartner Research positions Amazon Web Services in the Leaders Quadrant of the new Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services. Gartner defines leaders as offering innovative storage offerings built on a hardened platform, with global data centers and established credibility as a business.
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May 2015
AWS commissioned IDC to interview 11 organizations that deployed applications on AWS. IDC set out to understand the long-term economic implications of moving workloads onto Amazon cloud infrastructure services, the impact of moving applications on developer productivity and business agility, and the new opportunities that businesses could address by moving resources onto AWS. IDC discovered that the five-year total cost of ownership (TCO) of developing, deploying, and managing critical applications in AWS delivered a 64.3% savings when compared with deploying the same resources on-premises or in hosted environments. The findings also showed a 560% ROI over five years and 81.7% less downtime.
May 2015
Gartner Research positions Amazon Web Services in the Leaders Quadrant of the new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide (May 2015). Cloud IaaS, in the context of this Magic Quadrant, is defined as "a standardized, highly automated offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and networking capabilities, are owned by a service provider and offered to the customer on demand."
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December 2014
IDC’s 2014 EMEA Government IaaS Providers MarketScape evaluates leading cloud providers based on Portfolio, Strategy, Security and Go-To-Market criteria. The research analyzes the capabilities that global and EMEA-based providers offer and those that they plan to develop as part of their road maps. As a result of this study, AWS is rated as a leader in IDC’s two categories for success: Capabilities and Strategies.
December 29, 2014
In increasing numbers, enterprises are adding public clouds to their technology portfolios. According to Forrester, adoption of public clouds by enterprises will cross over the 36% mark this year. In Forrester’s 19-criteria evaluation of public cloud vendors, Forrester identified the 16 most significant public cloud platform providers for large enterprises. AWS was a leader across three of the four segments. Forrester writes that AWS is the best fit for the DevOps pro segment, but scores high for all segments.
November 18, 2014
This Forrester Wave evaluates four of the leading public clouds along 15 key security criteria and details the findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other, to help S&R professionals select the right public cloud partner with the best options for security controls and overall security capabilities. AWS leads the pack and demonstrated not only a broad set of security capabilities in data center security, certifications, and network security, but also excelled in customer satisfaction, security services partnerships, and a large installed base.
October 17, 2014
To examine the 'real world' cost of cloud over time, 451 Research created a Cloud Price Index (CPI). Like a consumer price index, the Cloud Price Index is made up of a basket of goods, but in this case it is a specification of the services required to operate a typical Web server application.
August 27, 2014
Public cloud IaaS is of growing interest to organizations of all sizes. In the early years of the market, it was used primarily for application development and testing, for batch computing and for new applications designed with cloud-native architectures. It is now commonly used for mainstream business applications as well, including mission-critical enterprise applications. This Gartner report compares 15 public cloud IaaS services against eight critical capabilities in four use cases. Amazon Web Services scores a 4.61/5 for Application Development Use Case, 4.85/5 for Batch Computing Use Case, 4.68/5 for Cloud-Native Applications Use Case, and 4.09/5 for General Business Applications Use Case.
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March 2014
This Nucleus Research study compares the reliability of cloud infrastructure and the availability of applications running in the cloud directly to running workloads on-premises. Nucleus surveyed 198 AWS customers that reported moving existing workloads from on-premises to AWS. The analysts found customers were able to reduce unplanned downtime by 32 percent and reduce planned downtime by 29 percent.
February 2013
VMS AG leveraged its industry-leading intelligence to develop a detailed cost analysis of running small and large SAP ERP systems on AWS using the best practices of more than 2,850 SAP environments. The research discovered that running SAP applications on AWS provides infrastructure savings of up to 71% compared to running it on-premises.
August 2012
This whitepaper, sponsored by AWS, highlights two customers (Twitpic and PBS) that use Amazon CloudFront to deliver their content. The paper provides comparative performance data that shows that Amazon CloudFront is fastest among top CDNs in several latency tests and beats the average latency of other top CDNs in all tests. The paper also presents results of tests run on the Amazon.com site (which runs performance testing on several top CDNs) that shows Amazon CloudFront performance is on average 7 percent faster than the next closest CDN and 51 percent faster than the third CDN tested illustrating why the vast majority of traffic on the Amazon.com site is currently served by Amazon CloudFront.
January 2012
This paper authored by Enterprise Strategy Group outlines the problems organizations face when implementing disaster recovery, describes how the cloud changes the game, and provides insight into a suite of components from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that make DR in the cloud simple and cost-efficient.
November 2011
In this report, 451 Research writes that disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud is rapidly gaining mainstream legitimacy and has even seen some adoption by enterprises, as overall mistrust of cloud infrastructure ebbs. Advances in networking sophistication by services like AWS and increasing virtualization within the enterprise contribute.
August 2011
This document will break down the cost differences by modeling a common workload — file storage — built and deployed traditionally versus consumed through the public cloud. Forrester’s models reveal a significant cost difference, with the cloud-based model coming in 74% less expensive than Infrastructure & Operations running it in-house.
