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2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services

AWS is the Longest-Running CIPS Leader

Gartner has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) a Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Leader for the 12th consecutive year. This Magic Quadrant (MQ) report provides cloud buyers with vendor insights based on Gartner research criteria. AWS placed highest in Ability to Execute among the eight vendors evaluated.

In the report, you’ll discover why Gartner again positioned AWS as a Leader, which we feel validates AWS’s breadth of cloud service capabilities that set the standard for cloud service innovation.

Read the report to:

  • Understand the CIPS landscape, and evaluate the strength of AWS’s cloud services
  • Review providers’ range of capabilities to meet your current and future cloud service use cases
  • Leverage an essential primer for evaluating public cloud service providers
  • Assess critical capabilities to look for when evaluating CIPS vendors

Read what customers are saying about AWS in the CIPS market:

Amazon Web Services commonly known as AWS is the best public cloud infrastructure platform of all time. This is an innovative platform and has changed the meaning of the cloud. We have been using this from the beginning and really like this. AWS provides a variety of other features in the form of business services which in includes AWS EC2, RDS, Lambda, Redshift, and CloudFront. Apart from these, there are great numbers of other business services as well that really help our platform, application and mobile application run seamlessly. We can scale AWS up and down at any point in time and this provides full flexibility.

Customer Experience Leader, Transportation Services

According to Gartner Peer Insights, AWS is rated 4.5/5 with 3,253 reviews, as of Oct. 21, 2022.
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AWS was among the first cloud providers when we launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 16 years ago. Our APIs have been adopted by the whole industry and often copied by others. 

Why Cloud Infrastructure Matters

The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is the most secure, extensive, and reliable cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

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See how customers using AWS cloud services increase agility, lower costs, and accelerate innovation. And remember to adjust the filters on the left side to review case studies that are relevant to your use case, geography and industry.

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