Choosing the right cloud partner for your business
To achieve long-term success, partnering with the right cloud provider is the key factor. This, in conjunction with an understanding of your workloads, will give you an assessment of how much work is needed to be able to migrate to the cloud.
The available market for cloud providers is vast. Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure have garnered the largest cloud market share, while there are many other niche players such as Rackspace and IBM Cloud, offering more specialized services.
In this section, we are going to discuss key distinctive factors that you can use to evaluate and identify a provider that will support your unique business, technical, and operational characteristics in an optimal way.
Security
Security is the foremost criterion and an area of priority in the cloud. Have a clear understanding of what your security goals are and map them to the provider...