Gartner Catalyst Conference
Conference 2018
20 – 23 August 2018 / San Diego, CA
TechDemo: Cloud Wars: Comparing Major Cloud
Platform Providers
Elias Khnaser / James Handshoe
@ekhnaser
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Who is the IaaS
cloud "king"
right now?
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It’s Complicated
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Evaluation Categories
RESILIENCE
COMPUTE
SOFTWARE
INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVICES
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STORAGE
DIGITAL BUSINESS
INFRASTRUCTURE
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NETWORK
OPERATIONS AND
GOVERNANCE
SECURITY
VENDOR
MANAGEMENT
& AUDIT
Interactive Excel Tool
REQUIRED
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PREFERRED
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OPTIONAL
DEMO
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DEMO
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DEMO
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208 Criteria 2014
205 Criteria 2015
234 Criteria 2016
92% 57% 54%
75% 41% 31%
96% 80% 56%
87% 54% 35%
67% 39% 21%
92% 71% 61%
88% 57% 47%
70% 44% 24%
AWS
Azure
AWS
Azure
GCP
AWS
Azure
GCP
AWS = Amazon Web Services; Azure = Microsoft Azure; GCP = Google Cloud Platform
Required
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Preferred
Optional
236 Criteria 2017
205 Criteria 2017
234 Criteria 2086
92%72%61%
94%65%55%
80%52%24%
94%76%61%
93%68%58%
83%52%32%
93%77%58%
95%69%58%
86%57%48%
69%33%23%
AWS
Azure
GCP
AWS
Azure
GCP
AWS
Azure
GCP
OCI
AWS = Amazon Web Services; Azure = Microsoft Azure; GCP = Google Cloud Platform
Required
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Preferred
Optional
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FOR 2018
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And the
King Is…
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Providers Overall Scores
July 2018
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86%
63%
49%
46%
37%
33%
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Overall Score Calculation
=
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(Required x 4) + (Preferred x 2) + (Optional x 1)
(Total Required x 4) + (Total Preferred x 2) + (Total Optional x 1)
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It was a hard fought battle…
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June 2019 Scores
265 Criteria 2019
95% 72% 63%
AWS
68% 58% 41%
64% 42% 30%
51% 40% 26%
44% 27% 10%
38% 24% 20%
Azure
GCP
Alibaba
OCI
IBM
Required
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Preferred
Optional
Magic Quadrant (MQ) vs.
In-Depth Assessment (IDA)
Ability to Execute:
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Product/Service
•
Overall Viability
•
Sales Execution/Pricing
Completeness of Vision:
From "Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide," 23 May 2018
(G-
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Market Understanding
and Strategy
•
Sales Strategy
•
Business Model
•
Innovation
•
Geographic Strategy
Your Assessment May Vary…
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OTHERS…
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And Others
Each Have
Specific
Value
Positions
When Do Customers
Choose Each Provider?
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Maturity
Scale
86%
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Ecosystem &
MarketPlace
Cautions
•
•
•
•
86%
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•
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No single-instance availability SLA
No regions and zones architectural
transparency
Availability SLA for Amazon S3
(99.95%)
No dynamic vertical autoscaling
support
No SLA for all GA services
No backup service
No immediate consistency on LIST
operations
No VM console access — basic
access
Hybrid
Identity and
Access Management
63%
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Scale
Cautions
63%
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Limited availability zone per region
•
No regions and zones architectural
transparency
•
No bare-metal options
•
No metrics-driven load balancing
•
No subminute provisioning times
•
No object life cycle management policy
•
No file/object versioning support
•
No storage service availability SLA —
30 minutes
•
No provider-offered Linux distribution
Software Infrastructure
Services
Technology
and Network
49%
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Financial
Incentives
Cautions
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
49%
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No single-instance availability SLA
No regions and zones architectural transparency
Products in a beta state for too long
No time-/schedule-based autoscaling
No LAN traffic encryption
No file storage support
No relational DBaaS support for enterprise
database
Limited logging support for account
management, provisioning and security
The notification window for customers to report a
missed SLA is less than two billing cycles
Targeting
APAC/China
Compute
46%
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Software Infrastructure
Services
• No Directory service
• No SLAs for all paid services
• Reliable global WAN
performance
Limited Global presence
• CMDB service
No Regional consistency of offerings
• No Microsoft, SAP and Oracle
Cost management and forecasting
partnerships
No Native CI/CD services
• No Sign-up governance
Limited Third party partnership and
• Customer penetration-testing
support
request process
No Authorization for FedRAMP, US DoD • No Provider access logs
Pas and CJIS
• No Disaster recovery service
Continuously available critical services
• No Arbitrary-size VMs
Service-level objectives
• Private networks for compute
VM host failure recovery
instances
No Flexible block storage volumes
• No Centralized policy
Block storage snapshots
management
Block storage data eradication
• No Bring your own public IP
No Object versioning
addresses
File storage service
• No Single tenant HSM
Cautions
•
•
•
•
•
•
46%
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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Oracle Suite
of Services
Network
37%
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Security
Cautions
37%
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• Limited geographic coverage
• No VM-preserving data center
maintenance
• Limited Relational DBaaS
• No SLAs for all paid services
• No Single-tenant VMs
• No Network forensics
• No Hot-swappable virtual hardware
• No VM console access
• No Per-second VM metering
• No Real-time network performance
visibility
• No Compliance assessment
• No Patch management service
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• No Large VM sizes
• No Certificate
management service
• No API gateway
• No CDN
• No CMDB service
• No Sign-up governance
• No Bring your own
public IP addresses
• No Optimized internet
routing
• No Single-tenant HSM
• No FedRAMP Moderate
authorization
• No U.S. DoD PAs
• No CJIS compliance
IBM Suite
of Services
Security
33%
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Managed Services
Cautions
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
33%
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•
•
•
•
•
Availability zones
Limited Relational DBaaS
No Granular RBAC policies
No Basic cost management
No Directory service
Limited Ecosystem
No Rapid provisioning of
VMs
Service-level agreements
Virtual networking
No Network forensics
No Forced tagging
No Simplified container
orchestration service
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• No Object life cycle management
policy
• No Customer penetration-testing
request process
• No Disaster recovery service
• No Arbitrary-size VMs
• No Encrypted file storage
• No Bring your own public IP
addresses
• No FPGA compute instances
• No FedRAMP High authorization
• No Regional service consistency
• No Continuously available critical
services
• No Object versioning
• No Transit hub
The War is not over…
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A Multicloud
Strategy Is Becoming
Increasingly Important
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A Multicloud
Strategy Is Becoming
Increasingly Important
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A Multicloud
Strategy Is
Becoming
Increasingly
Important
Strategy Is Becoming
Increasingly Important
A Multicloud
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and
Still Dominate
Gartner Client Inquiry Interest
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