Public Cloud Momentum Pacing Past Forecasts, With AWS, Azure in Lead

With the second quarter behind us, now strikes us as a swell time to assess public cloud momentum. We say that as cloud dominates much of the technology conversation because of the success of its breakout components — hybrid cloud, multicloud and, yes, public cloud.

Hybrid cloud and multicloud have gained notable traction, especially over the last three years. Yet underneath the majority of those deployments lies undeniable public cloud momentum. These environments – provisioned by the hyperscalers – support a range of capabilities. Those include edge computing to access to a host of applications for business productivity.

With all of that in mind, we run through some significant considerations in terms of public cloud so far this year, and coming up. Channel partners selling cloud services will be interested to take a look at the figures, players and predictions. Click through the slideshow above.