The Big Three cloud providers are more alike than not
Every year, we attend cloud conferences to hear about new features, services, ecosystem expansion, and announcements that promise to reshape enterprise IT. These innovations matter. However, if we step back and look at how most enterprises actually consume public cloud, for all practical purposes, the three big cloud providers are essentially the same where it counts most. This statement can make people uncomfortable because the market encourages us to see dramatic differences in AI services, databases, frameworks, and niche capabilities that each provider would like to position as strategic lock-ins. While valuable and sometimes the right choice, they are not the most important elements for most cloud deployments. The center of gravity remains core infrastructure. Core infrastructure is a commodity When we talk about core infrastructure, we are referring to compute and storage. Compute includes processor options, memory configurations, instance families, operating system support, elas