The cloud continues to transform computing, making it less expensive, easier and faster to create, deploy, and run applications as well as store enormous quantities of data.
The cloud offers services of all types, including software as a service, database as a service, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, cloud puts a range of technologies within users’ easy reach—when they need it, where they need it, with the ability to scale elastically.
Public clouds by design are not built to be highly redundant and the market is moving toward a system where enterprises must architect a hybrid cloud solution that spans multiple cloud infrastructures.
The cloud is now 10 years old but it is still evolving, offering ways to enhance security and work hand in hand with users to create backups of businesses most important data.
Best Cloud Solution
Amazon Web Services
Winners' Circle by Raju Gulabani, VP AI, Analytics and Database, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Nearly 8 years ago, we introduced the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) based on customer requests for a way to lower the cost and complexity of database management. We started with the popular MySQL open-source database, then added Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB engines...read on.
FINALISTS
Microsoft Azure
Reltio Cloud and Data Driven Applications