We often hear the term “the cloud” used generically when people discuss public cloud infrastructure. That implies all public clouds consist of similar if not identical hardware, technologies, and architectures. But the reality is that the largest public cloud providers, the hyperscalers, have unique ways of building out their infrastructure and services to address the plethora of requirements of enterprises and startups alike. Over the past few years, hyperscalers have also developed their own ways to provide specialized capabilities – such as AI and machine learning (ML) – that have become priorities across all types of businesses. 

Customers have many options to choose from when seeking a cloud provider that best meets their unique needs. Instead of offering commodity services, public clouds can stand out in the way they differentiate with their innovations across the technology stack.   

Enterprise architects and business owners must find the best fit for their workload needs, whether they host it themselves in a private cloud or use a public cloud service. Fortunately, they have a choice, and they need to make the best of that situation through an evolved approach when deciding where to place their workloads. Modern technology is not a one-size-fits-all situation – public cloud services approach areas such as AI and data gravity with differentiated infrastructure, services, systems, and procedures. Organizations should, therefore, seek the best full-stack provider for their specific workload needs – whether those are mission-critical databases, the low-latency requirements of a streaming service or financial trading system, privacy and security needs for electronic health records, or the scalability demands of media and entertainment content creation systems.

In our latest research brief, Where You Build and Run Your Applications Matters, done in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we analyze how hyperscalers’ infrastructure should be a key consideration for organizations placing applications in public clouds.

This brief provides details about:

• Customer requirements of public clouds: security, performance, availability, and scalability 
• AI gets real in public clouds
• Global infrastructure: what about data and apps outside a public cloud
• Customer stories
• Where AWS shines

AWS stands out among public cloud service providers because of its leadership in areas such as silicon innovation, serverless computing, security and reliability, and a wide range of capabilities for running any type of application anywhere. Innovations such as Graviton customer silicon and Nitro virtual infrastructure provide AWS with a full software stack, robust set of generative AI and ML services, and hardened security. If you are interested in learning more, download your copy of Where You Build and Run Your Applications Matters, today.