In 2006, Amazon Web Services, (AWS) began offering IT services to the public in the form of web services commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computing is that it replaces upfront capital infrastructure expenses with an on-demand low-cost pay-as-you-go model. AWS made businesses no longer need to plan for and procure IT infrastructures weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly select any numbers of servers and other technologies needed

for them and it is delivered to them in minutes. Today, AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in more than 190 countries around the world. AWS offers resources optimized to run containers, along with a set of orchestration services that make it easy to build and run containerized applications in production. In this report, Forrester identifies and evaluates the 7 most significant platforms in this category and evaluates them against 10 criteria that set AWS apart from the rest.

For the ninth year in a row, AWS is evaluated as the Leader in cloud IaaS with the highest score in both axes of measurement, Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. In this report, learn why Gartner positioned AWS as a Leader in this space and dive deeper into the benefits that public cloud IaaS can bring to your organization.

With such dynamic position and reputation in the cloud market, it is only obvious hat organizations choose AWS over any other vendor. However, choosing AWS is not it. Having the right provider to walk you through it is challenging. CIO Insider has always kept a close eye on the recommended providers in the market. AWS too needs to be established with the right partner. Therefore, this edition focuses on the 10 Most Recommended AWS Partners. We believe collaborative work can lead any organization to its success. Most of all, this partner program is based on the concept of collaborative work.