Website and email hosting for small business accounts

Website and email hosting for small business accounts

And for small business accounts Amazon S3 and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) for more efficient storage

and for more efficient storage Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) for ad hoc searching and indexing

beyond and Amazon Kinesis for messaging and real-time streaming of event data

for messaging and real-time streaming of event data Amazon SNS for connecting to Cloud endpoints for user notifications and push notifications

for connecting to Cloud endpoints for user notifications and push notifications Amazon MapReduce for Hadoop data processing

for Hadoop data processing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for data caching and e-commerce needs

and for e-commerce needs Amazon SQS for service delivery and application delivery

for service delivery and application delivery Amazon DynamoDB for querying, analytics and transactional data storage

for querying, analytics and transactional data storage Amazon Redshift for high-speed data warehousing and analytics

for high-speed data warehousing and analytics Amazon RDS for the protection and backups of your legacy database environment

for the protection and backups of your legacy database environment Amazon Elastic Beanstalk for the deployment and management of infrastructure in the cloud

for the deployment and management of infrastructure in the cloud Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) for indexing and search of your data

for indexing and search of your data Amazon Aurora for high-performance computing

for high-performance computing Amazon RDS for the management of your PostgreSQL database

for the management of your PostgreSQL database Amazon Redshift for low-latency, big data analytics

for low-latency, big data analytics Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server

for Microsoft SQL Server Amazon EFS for file system backups

for file system backups Amazon Redshift for Hadoop data processing

for Hadoop data processing Amazon SNS for the management of user notifications

for the management of user notifications Amazon Kinesis for messaging and real-time streaming of event data

for messaging and real-time streaming of event data Amazon CloudWatch for metrics, monitoring and alerting

For more information about how you can make AWS the foundation of your modern IT stack, visit https://aws.amazon.com.

Please download the free Access Management E-book to learn more.

— Jeff;

PS – Speaking of AWS …

Redmonk Best of 2016 Awards (PDF)

As many of you know, we ran a competition on our blog to determine the best of 2016. These awards are given to products, services and companies. Redmonk has also just launched a list of the 10 Best Cloud Platforms. We've come up with the 6 winners and one "best in class". According to comScore's latest U.S. Digital (Platform & Device) Rankings for 2016 (the first data set of the year), Amazon is by far the largest cloud provider in the U.S., with an astounding 89.1% market share. To put that into context, in the web services space Google has 19.2% and Microsoft only 1.4%.

This should come as no surprise, as Amazon has invested $10 billion in infrastructure in the past year alone. And remember that AWS is free for basic services and you only pay for the storage you use, plus any I/O traffic. I thought it would be interesting to see how Amazon stacks up against other providers in the cloud. Not just in the U.S., but across the globe. So here's my take on the six cloud providers with significant presence outside the U.S., grouped by region.

Europe/CIS/Africa

AWS has significant presence in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). In fact, it is the largest cloud provider in the region, with 36.8% market share in 2016. Google comes in second place, with 22.4%.

Amazon also has significant presence in South America. Its South American presence spans multiple AWS regions and some individual servers. As Amazon's Latin American operations head Fernando Palazuelo put it, "Latin America is one of our largest and fastest growing regions, where we are opening more than 100 new AWS data centers every year. Today, we have data centers in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay. We have more than 800 customers and their data, applications and services are running on AWS, more than on any other cloud in the region."

U.S. Cloud Service Provider Market Share, 2016 (ComScore):

Data Source: comScore Inc.

Amazon Redshift is also used by many companies in the U.S. for analyzing data from various sources. For example, it's an alternative to SQL Server in customer data warehouses.

Amazon is also the #1 cloud provider for the media and entertainment industry, as shown below.

The "best in class"

AWS won the Best in Class award for the second year in a row. There were two Cloud Platforms in the running for the award:

Microsoft Azure — Microsoft also claimed the #2 spot on the Cloud Platforms list for the second year in a row.