ISG Provider Lens™ AWS - Ecosystem Partners - Global Summary Report - December 2021
Enterprises Seek More Vertical-Based Solutions
Enterprises globally are seeking service providers that offer solutions, platforms or frameworks that cater to their industry-specific requirements. Service providers are increasing their investments in developing industry-focused solutions.
“Future-ready service providers are creating strong positions of competitive leverage through their AWS partnerships, smartly fulfilling the unique demands and needs of different clients’ cloud journeys. Exponential gains are demonstrated through co-innovations with AWS, in marketplace offerings, pretrained accelerators, integrators, industry-specific cloud services bundles, ESG-focused cloud solutions, and in governance and risk assurance practices related to cloud, data and AI.” – Tapati Bandopadhyay, Lead Analyst, U.S.
Decarbonization is Gaining Importance
With the increasing cloud adoption among public and private enterprises, clients can find creative, innovative solutions that meet ambitious sustainability targets. Enterprises and providers have increased their investments to address key challenges to reduce carbon emissions across data centers.
Merger & Acquisition is Gaining Traction
There has been a significant rise in mergers and acquisitions by significantly large service providers of niche providers that offer AWS services to one market or more.
Increased Use of Automation and AI
Enterprises collaborate with providers to offer AWS with the adoption of automation and AI that help analyze the applications and infer the untapped insights from the vast amount of data available.
Cost Optimization is a Major Focus Area For Enterprises
Cost optimization is an important parameter for enterprises to collaborate with service provider and obtain the AWS services offered. Many providers have developed in-house FinOps tool that helps enterprises measure their cloud usage and cost at any given point in time.
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