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Data Quadrant Awards 2024

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service


SoftwareReviews names Amazon EC2, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines as Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Data Quadrant Award Winners.


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Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

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Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Data Quadrant

Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists


Amazon

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.

9.0

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+92

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

91%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Badge Winner
457Reviews

Google

Google Cloud

Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.

9.0

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+94

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

90%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Badge Winner
379Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

9.0

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+90

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

91%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Badge Winner
265Reviews

Vendor Capability Awards


Availability and Quality of Training

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Badge Winner

Breadth of Features

Amazon EC2

Badge Winner

Business Value Created

Amazon EC2

Badge Winner

Ease of Customization

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Badge Winner

Ease of Data Integration

Google Cloud

Badge Winner

Ease of IT Administration

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Badge Winner

Ease of Implementation

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Badge Winner

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Badge Winner

Quality of Features

Amazon EC2

Badge Winner

Usability and Intuitiveness

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Badge Winner

Vendor Support

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

Badge Winner

Vendor Capability Awards


Availability and Quality of Training

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure


Breadth of Features

Amazon EC2


Business Value Created

Amazon EC2


Ease of Customization

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure


Ease of Data Integration

Google Cloud


Ease of IT Administration

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines


Ease of Implementation

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure


Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure


Quality of Features

Amazon EC2


Usability and Intuitiveness

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure


Vendor Support

IBM Cloud Bare Metal


Other Evaluated Vendors


Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

From the most comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions, to the world’s #1 enterprise database, Oracle offers the choice and flexibility to meet your business requirements.

8.9

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+93

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

90%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

55Reviews

IBM

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

IBM Cloud™ Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. Your server isn’t shared with “noisy neighbors,” it’s all yours!

8.5

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+93

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

88%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

36Reviews

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Our R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.

7.9

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+87

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

84%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

29Reviews

DigitalOcean, LLC.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean helps you create, automate, and manage a robust infrastructure with features like API, Floating IPs, Shared Private Networking, and Team Accounts.

7.8

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+84

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

84%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

33Reviews

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