
AWS who? Meet AAS
Yes, I know that predicting the downfall of SaaS and SaaS providers is all the rage right now, and no - this is not an AWS doomsday prophecy. AWS still holds about 30% of the cloud market (although Microsoft is really closing the gap with 20% market share) and remains, at least in my personal opinion, a market leader in terms of stability, features and innovation. AWS is not the best at everything, but is the best at most things, and that how it holds a third of the market (and half of Amazon's profits ). Do you remember when AWS was pushing serverless compute? Seems so long ago, a time when we were all still spinning VMs on our vCenters. They were offering S3, when companies were still piling on VNX storage racks. I know, I was there, at EMC² , when it was happening. In the Beginning There Was Cloud That kind of forward thinking approach put AWS in the lead, and allowed it to maintain it's lead over the years. A few years ago- cloud is all anyone talks about. SaaS companies rise. Serv
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