Hyperscalers and Cloud Computing services
Investigating different hyperscalers’ cloud computing
services
Krishna Jadhav
Investigating different hyperscalers’ cloud computing services
Overview
In the following article Krishna Jadhav overviewed an example of Great Britain, home to “hyperscalers” Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, opened an investigation on cloud services competitors, with the industry’s current revenue totalling 81% (Reuters, 2022). The key technologies underpinning the growing digital economy are advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data analytics, and three‑dimensional (3D) printing. The UK’s tech VC investment sector holds the 3rd global position, following US and China, with a record-high hit of $21bn during the covid-19 situational issues in 2020 (Wysokińska, 2021). Communications regulator Ofcom also said on 22nd September it would examine other digital markets over the next year, including messaging services such as WhatsApp, FaceTime and Zoom, and connected televisions and smart speakers.
Figure 1: Cloud-native stack observable
(Source: Kratzke and Siegfried, 2021)
Hyperscalers and cloud
computing
Cloud computing offers significant growth
opportunities: almost all software companies in the UK are using the cloud, and
opportunities exist in both the public and private sectors for companies
offering cloud or linked services (Floerecke and Lehner, 2018). UK enterprises
frequently want to use more than one vendor because each has particular
strengths related to vertical solutions, pricing and other factors. The
hyperscalers consistently drive costs down to drive out their local
competitors since they are conscious of their position of power. As a result,
there has been a rising market consolidation among local IaaS providers
(Floerecke and Lehner, 2018). An illustration would be the recent acquisition
of Profit Bricks by United Internet, a medium-sized IaaS provider that serves
the German market. Cloud computing is a revolutionary IT operations paradigm that
fundamentally alters how IT resources are created, delivered, and consumed.
Figure 2: Resource utility cloud architecture evolution POV
(Source: Kratzke and Siegfried, 2021)
Conclusion
Krishna
Jadhav’s analysis concluded from the article that the idea that cloud-based
IT services are commoditized and distributed similarly to conventional
utilities like electricity, gas, and water is becoming a reality increasingly.
An often-used definition of cloud computing from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) is that it is "a paradigm for providing
ubiquitous, accessible, on-demand network access to a shared pool of
customizable computing resources that can be promptly supplied and released
with minimum administration effort or service provider engagement". A business
ecosystem is relevant for systemic innovations in which several interconnected
and interdependent enterprises collaborate to provide full-scale consumer
solutions. Several efforts at a formal definition have been attempted to get a
thorough grasp of the business ecosystem within the context of cloud computing.
To learn
more about Current Market trends of Cloud Computing, proceed to the next
article.
Floerecke, S., and Lehner, F. (2018, September). Business model
characteristics for local iaas providers for counteracting the dominance of the
hyperscalers. In International Conference on the Economics of Grids,
Clouds, Systems, and Services (pp. 137-150). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-13342-9_12
Kratzke, N., and Siegfried, R. (2021). Towards cloud-native
simulations–lessons learned from the front-line of cloud computing. The
Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 18(1), 39-58. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1548512919895327
Reuters (2022). UK to examine cloud services dominated by Amazon,
Microsoft and Google. Technology. [Online]. Available at: https://www.reuters.com/technology/britain-examine-competition-cloud-services-2022-09-22/ [Accessed on 20th
October 2022]
Wysokińska, Z. (2021). A Review of the Impact of the Digital
Transformation on the Global and European Economy. Comparative Economic
Research. Central and Eastern Europe, 24(3), 75-92. https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/259278
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