Strategic Cloud Research

Analyst reports to support strategic cloud buying decisions.

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.

Gartner | 2024 Vendor Rating: Amazon


Gartner recognizes Amazon for receiving an overall Vendor Rating of positive. In this report, Gartner provides ratings for six business categories: Product/Service, Support/Account Management, Pricing Structure, Technology/Methodology, Strategy, and Corporate Viability. Discover how AWS scored across the six scored categories. 

Strategic Focus

Gartner | 2024 Vendor Rating: Amazon

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services


AWS is proud to be recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the 14th consecutive year. In the report, Gartner once again placed AWS highest in Ability to Execute. We believe this reflects our ongoing commitment to giving customers the broadest and deepest set of capabilities to accelerate innovation as well as unparalleled security, reliability, and performance they can trust for their most critical applications.

Reliability, Security, Performance

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants


AWS ranked as a Leader in Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants. We believe this recognition of Amazon Q Developer reflects our rapid pace of innovation, which makes the whole software development lifecycle easier and increases developer productivity with enterprise-grade access controls and security.

Generative AI

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

ISG Provider Lens for Multi Public Cloud Services - Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)


ISG named AWS as a Leader in the Provider Lens Quadrant report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU) for the second year in a row. According to ISG, “AWS develops various innovative solutions to meet different sovereignty needs, guided by inputs from regulators, cybersecurity experts, partners and customers. These solutions address factors such as location, workload sensitivity and industry standards.”

Digital Sovereignty

ISG Provider Lens for Multi Public Cloud Services - Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)

IDC | 2024 IDC Sustainability


This IDC Vendor Profile provides a detailed overview of AWS's sustainability strategy and operationalization practices in the context of IDC's ESG/Sustainability framework. In this report, IDC dives deep into AWS's overall sustainability strategy and its readiness to cope with the growing demand for computing infrastructure that supports AI and generative AI workloads.

Sustainability

IDC | 2024 IDC Sustainability

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service


In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) report, AWS was named a Leader for the second year in a row, and we believe this is a testament to the innovation of Amazon Connect, our flexible, AI-powered cloud contact center solution. This Leader placement reflects our commitment to empowering companies of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises, to deliver superior customer experiences at a lower cost.

Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT Platforms


AWS has innovated on behalf of industrial customers and partners to not only unlock siloed data from equipment, machines, and legacy systems such as SCADA and historians, but also facilitate digital transformation by integrating Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, edge computing, big data, and advanced analytics. Our collaboration with AWS Partners such as automation providers, industrial systems integrators, and independent software vendors has extended our ability to serve industrial customers through applications and solutions built for specialized use cases across manufacturing, energy, utilities, transportation and logistics, and more.

Internet of Things (IOT)

Gartner | 2024 Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial IoT Platforms

2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management

In the report, Amazon Web Services is recognized as a Leader. AWS has the broadest and deepest capabilities making it easier to deploy, orchestrate, operate, and monitor containers while offloading many infrastructure management tasks.

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IDC MarketScape | Worldwide Event Brokering Software 2024 Vendor Assessment

AWS recognized as a Leader in Analytic Stream Processing Software assessment. The report noted, “The Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easy to build and run real-time stream processing applications using Apache Flink.”

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Frost and Sullivan | Frost Radar: Cloud Contact Center, Asia-Pacific, 2024

Amazon Connect, an AI-powered cloud contact center from Amazon Web Services (AWS), is one of 16 industry vendors profiled and analyzed based on innovation and growth performance. Read why AWS was rated a leader in 2024 Frost Radar: Cloud Contact Center, Asia-Pacific, 2024. 

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