As Amazon Web Services continues its cloud computing domination into 2020, the new decade starts with anticipation of how much No. 2 Microsoft Azure can close the gap after better-than-anticipated quarterly results reports from both this month.<\/p>\n
The battle between the two public cloud rivals also will play out in the courtroom, where AWS is challenging the U.S. Department of Defenses award of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft amid allegations of political interference from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Industry observers will be tracking the progress of No. 3 Google Cloud under CEO Thomas Kurian, as it continues its enterprise push and hybrid multi-cloud strategy with its Anthos platform.<\/p>\n
Cloud computing continues to be the top spending priority among the 2,000 largest U.S. enterprises, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of CIOs in December.<\/p>\n
Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives, meanwhile, sees this year as an inflection point year for cloud spending thats driven by enterprises multi-cloud strategies.<\/p>\n
We estimate that $300 billion has been spent on the cloud globally over the last four years and, looking ahead, upwards of $700 billion-plus will be spent over the next three years, which speaks to the massive cloud opportunity for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others (IBM), he said.<\/p>\n
Heres a look at six cloud providers everyone will have their eyes on in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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