Cloud computing is not just a fancy application that people can use to store their photos and video files online. It is part of a business model that has taken the world by storm. Cloud computing has not only changed how so many businesses store and access data, but has also changed how many of these businesses function. With the coronavirus pandemic still grinding the global economy, here are some predictions for the cloud computing market in 2021.
Cloud services will remain predominant even in the post pandemic era:
Amid the covid-19 pandemic cloud services were a savior that prevented the economy from crashing down. Although, the effects of covid-19 will continue in the year 2021 and beyond and everybody will continue to bank on cloud services. Cloud services are essential and will continue to be even this year given their benefits of improved accessibility, scalability, and flexibility. In 2021, the cloud will change how companies adapt to the “new normal.” No one knows how far into 2021 we’ll continue to work from home, shop online, or avoid traveling but it’s clear that every enterprise must become more sharp, receptive, and adaptive than ever before.
The world is going serverless:
Serverless is the next evolution in cloud computing technology. Cloud serverless is a technique for implementing functions in the cloud on a required basis. Enterprises depend on serverless computing as it provides the space for working on the core product without the hassle of operating or managing the servers. Several predictions state that 25% of developers will use go serverless by the end of this year.
A serverless platform has the power to change the business of enterprise preferences and conception of cloud adoption
Big and emerging played in cloud biz:
The big names in the cloud computing business are Amazon web services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google cloud storage, and Alibaba Cloud with several other names these are the big players that run the arena. However, there will be a reshuffling of the top three public cloud providers in 2021, with China’s Alibaba Cloud displacing Google Cloud to take the No. 3 spot for revenue in the global public cloud infrastructure market. behind No.1 Amazon Web Services and Microsoft
Amazon Web Services
It makes sense to start with the big player of corporate cloud service providers.
Microsoft Azure Data Lake
Microsoft Azure is a collection of various cloud computing services, including remotely hosted and managed versions of proprietary Microsoft technologies, and open technologies, such as various Linux distributions deployable inside a virtual machine. Azure can be utilized at any scale, from a garage startup to a Fortune 500 company.
Microsoft’s competitor to AWS launched a bit later in 2010 but quickly grew to offer a full suite of tools and services, designed to allow organizations that work with large datasets to carry out all of their operations in the cloud.
Google Cloud Storage
Google’s cloud platform is built on the same technology that powers its own Big Data-driven services like Youtube and Google Search, with all the scalability and reliability that this implies. It also offers a number of storage and data lake-oriented services under the banner of Google Cloud Storage, designed to be scalable to handle exabytes of data.
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud (formerly Aliyun) is not (yet) as popular in western nations as the “Big 3” of Google, AWS, and Microsoft, but it’s certainly a growing presence. As the leading Big Data cloud service provider in China, however, it has a huge user base in Asia and provides the same range of analytics, security, and AI tools as the US-based platforms. It offers pay-as-you-go as well as monthly subscription models.
