Amazon's cloud reign may soon come to an end, says Gartner • The Register

Microsoft is probably very pleased with this report

"This year, as with last year, AWS is as far to the right and near the top of the top right square, joined by Microsoft significantly below and slightly to the left of it.

"Azure has been consistently mentioned as the number two vendor in client calls since last September," explained Gartner analyst Lydia Leong in an email to El Reg.

Google, which has released a set of services designed to compete with both Amazon's and Microsoft's clouds, has beamed into third place.

In the middle sit typical providers like IBM, CSC, CenturyLink, Terremark, Rackspace, VMware, and Virtustream.

The lower left contains GoGrid in dead last place, followed by Joyent, Dimension Data, Fujitsu, and HP. HP recently committed a billion dollars to upgrading its cloud efforts."

Amazon's cloud reign may soon come to an end, says Gartner • The Register