Data Quadrant Awards 2023
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
SoftwareReviews names Google Cloud, Amazon EC2, and Microsoft Azure as Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
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Software Experience
When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.
Product Features and Satisfaction
The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.
Vendor Experience and Capabilities
The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).
Gold Medalists
Google Cloud
Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.
8.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+93
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
90%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Amazon.com
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.
8.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+90
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
91%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Azure
With its software-defined architecture, factory integration and simplified order process, CPS accelerates your journey to your hybrid cloud. CPS delivers a self-service, multi-tenant cloud environment for Windows and Linux applications that provides optimized deployment packs—both for applications like Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Exchange, as well as remote desktops/desktop virtualization.
8.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
90%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Breadth of Features
Amazon EC2
Business Value Created
Amazon EC2
Ease of Customization
Amazon EC2
Ease of Data Integration
Google Cloud
Ease of IT Administration
Microsoft Azure
Ease of Implementation
Google Cloud
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Amazon EC2
Quality of Features
Amazon EC2
Usability and Intuitiveness
DigitalOcean
Vendor Support
IBM Cloud Bare Metal
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Breadth of Features
Amazon EC2
Business Value Created
Amazon EC2
Ease of Customization
Amazon EC2
Ease of Data Integration
Google Cloud
Ease of IT Administration
Microsoft Azure
Ease of Implementation
Google Cloud
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Amazon EC2
Quality of Features
Amazon EC2
Usability and Intuitiveness
DigitalOcean
Vendor Support
IBM Cloud Bare Metal
Other Evaluated Vendors
Oracle
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
From the most comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions, to the world’s #1 enterprise database, Oracle offers the choice and flexibility to meet your business requirements.
8.6
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
88%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
IBM
IBM Cloud Bare Metal
IBM Cloud™ Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. Your server isn’t shared with “noisy neighbors,” it’s all yours!
8.3
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+90
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Our R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
DigitalOcean, LLC.
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean helps you create, automate, and manage a robust infrastructure with features like API, Floating IPs, Shared Private Networking, and Team Accounts.
8.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+83
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
82%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).
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