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Cloud computing and cloud platforms provide businesses with an alternative to establishing their own infrastructure.

The market for cloud services and platforms is quickly expanding. Modern technologies such as IoT, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and even web and mobile application hosting need a large amount of computational power. Cloud computing and cloud platforms provide businesses with an alternative to establishing their own infrastructure. Anyone who has access to the internet may enjoy scalable computing capacity in a plug-and-play manner with cloud computing. Many firms provide cloud platforms for app development, administration, and deployment.

Here are the top 5 cloud platforms of 2022.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an Amazon business (a leading company in eCommerce). Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides on-demand cloud computing services such as storage, data analysis, and so on. Amazon offers its services to individuals, businesses, and governments, with a staggering 35% market share. Amazon Web Services members may access a full-fledged virtual group of computers at any moment, based on their needs. The full service is accessible over the internet.

Amazon is often regarded as the most powerful and adaptable cloud service provider.

Google Cloud Platform, or GCP, is the moniker given to Googles public cloud computing offerings. It provides services in all main areas, including computation, machine learning (ML), storage, networking, and the internet of things (IoT). It also provides cloud administration, security, and development tools. Google Cloud Storage is a dynamic storage system that can hold SQL (Cloud SQL) and NoSQL (Cloud Datastore) databases.

Users can host workloads on the Google Compute Engine. Google App Engine provides software developers with access to Googles on-demand hosting as well as a software development kit (SDK) for developing apps that operate on an app engine.

Microsoft Azure (previously Windows Azure) is the companys cloud computing service. This service, which is primarily available through Microsoft-managed data centers, has proven to be a dependable solution, particularly for Microsoft evangelists. Like the preceding solutions, it aids in the creation, testing, deployment, and administration of applications and services.

The Windows Azure platform is used to run programs on Microsofts servers. This code has permission to access local storage systems. SQL Azure, although not a full SQL Server instance, can be coupled with SQL Server. Security elements like authentication, security, and so on are enabled by Azure AppFabric, which allows apps on your LAN to interface with the Azure cloud. Ultimately, it is a full suite that enables application development, management, and security.

DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting firm based in the United States that released its first server in 2011. Since 2011, the modest start-up from New York City, New York has grown to have a customer base of over 500,000 developers.

DigitalOcean has pushed the notion of employing a Solid State Drive (SSD) to create a developer-friendly infrastructure that allows DO customers to rapidly and effectively transfer projects and enhance output. Enterprise clients of DO may simply utilize the benefits of scalability by executing projects across various platforms without sacrificing performance.

IBM Bluemix is an IBM cloud computing service that includes platform as a service (PaaS) and also infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. Users of Bluemix IaaS may utilize the internet to deploy and access virtual compute power, memory, and networking. The IBM service offerings can be employed in a public, private, or hybrid format, depending on the needs of the company.

The IBM Bluemix PaaS is built on the Cloud Foundry opensource framework. Developers may utilize IBM services to build, manage, execute, and deploy scalable apps for both public cloud and on-premise settings. IBM Bluemix supports the following programming languages: Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python. The solution may potentially be expanded to accommodate more languages.

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By Tony Nicolaidis, Chief Revenue Officer of Successware

Business management software can offer scalability for a plumbing business looking to streamline operations, reduce administrative work, digitize files, and more. Yet, the process of identifying the right business management software can be overwhelming considering all the solutions out there. Here are the top features to look out for in business management software and the reasons these innovations will help your business grow.

The most important aspect to any growing business is the ability to collect, retain, and analyze your data. This should be one of the main functions of your business management software. Reporting on metrics allows you to determine what is working in your business and what is not.

Typically, an analytics-driven reporting dashboard will give you access to key performance indicators (KPIs) such as total revenue, gross margin, cost of goods sold, EBITDA, job history, and technician productivity. Reporting tools will allow you to combine that data into a high-level overview. You should also look for software that allows you to pull reports on all things within the software, such as Accounts Receivable and Payable, Commissions, Equipment, Inventory, Jobs, Marketing, Purchasing, and Agreements.

Even more valuable than the ability to access reports is the ability to customize them for your particular business. For example, a plumber will have different needs versus an HVAC technician, or a small business versus a larger company. Make sure your business management software is flexible and customizable enough for your business needs.

From your customers to your employees, anyone interacting with your brand expects communication and operations to be accessible and efficient. Your business management software should alleviate the pain-points that come with administrative work and reduce unnecessary paperwork.

An omni-channel communication platform built directly into your business management system is an excellent tool to assist with customer service functions and to offer your customers a better experience. Certain platforms will integrate with soft phone system, allowing you to track and log customer calls, retain customer call history, and store customer details, assisting you in your marketing efforts. You will have the ability to conduct inbound and outbound calls and send texts and emails all from the same communication platform. These omnichannel solutions also will auto assign the lead source based on the phone number the customer dialed, eliminating the need for your customer service rep to ask, how did you hear about us?

As always, customers are looking for convenience. If they are able to book appointments online through your software, your brand will feel more accessible. On the dispatchers end, booking online automatically fills available time slots, making the dispatch board more streamlined. As for the business owner, a digitized system allows employers to assign technicians to jobs based on their availability, skill sets, and travel distance, helping you to get the right technician to the right job.

When on the job, a business management software that is integrated with a mobile application can reduce paperwork for technicians through functions such as online payment processing, digital forms and invoices, and more. Technicians can get their jobs done more efficiently and digitally, allowing your business to offer a professional and modern experience to your customer.

You may be familiar with traditional hosting, where you can pay for a set amount of storage space on a server. Traditional hosting enables information to be accessed only from specific locations and puts the responsibility on the business to maintain and update the server.

On the other hand, cloud hosting stores data virtually across multiple servers and data centers that can be accessed from anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection. Cloud hosting has been found to be more cost-effective, convenient, and customizable, which is why so many businesses have shifted to the cloud in recent years. Benefits of the cloud in business management software include:

Uptime: Cloud hosting offers the ability for their servers to be accessed with an internet connection. If one server goes down, another takes over immediately, which means the system is more reliable overall.

Data Backup and Disaster Recovery: With the ability for data to be accessed through remote servers, data can be backed-up and retrieved in data centers throughout the country. Therefore, if there is an outage or system failure, your data remains secure.

Storage: With the cloud, you can add or reduce resources like bandwidth, storage, RAM, and more based on your overall usage. As a result, businesses will pay only for the amount of storage needed for their particular operations.

Security: Cloud hosting offers Artificial intelligence (AI) and firewalls to keep data extra secure from hackers wielding malware or viruses. In addition, files stored in the cloud are typically encrypted or scrambled, making it difficult for cybercriminals to access. The cloud provider also manages updates to security settings, reducing the administrative tasks of your teams.

Work From Anywhere: If you have a Wi-Fi connection, you can access your business data and information from anywhere in the world. Simple as that!

It is easy to see the appeal of business management software and harder to narrow down what features will benefit your business the most. Overall, innovations in cloud hosting, reporting, and operational functions are universally helpful to plumbing businesses. Most importantly, business management software should enable your brand to run more efficiently and bring your company to the next level of growth.

Tony Nicolaidis is the Chief Revenue Officer of Successware, a business management software company for the home service industry. In his current role, Tony leads sales, sales operations, and customer success. He is also critical to the development of Successwares future growth strategy. Prior to joining Successware in 2020, Tony gained more than 30 years of experience in the contractor space through various positions at brands such as Stanley Black and Decker (SBD).

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For the most part, especially if its a newer application or a modernized or restructured application, its going to be running inside containers orchestrated by [Amazon] ECS and EKS or running on Lambda, Singh said in an interview with Protocol. Running it directly on a [virtual machine], without container orchestration on top, is getting less and less common.

Containers speed up application development by isolating everything needed to build and deploy applications code and other operating dependencies including configuration files and system libraries and tools without the overhead of an operating system. The technology has been around for a long time, but Docker popularized a developer-friendly format for using containers around 2013, and it has become a big part of the cloud-native world ever since.

With two major managed services for containers, AWS dominates container orchestration among cloud providers, according to market share data. But the company has also heavily promoted Lambda, a very different serverless functions computing service, as the future of cloud computing.

AWS remains reluctant to acknowledge one of the major benefits of containers they make it easier to run applications on multiple clouds despite the growth and influence of containers as a product strategy both inside AWS and outside. And key features announced in 2020 to support customers who want to manage applications on any infrastructure appear to have fallen short of the multicloud capabilities offered by similar products from Microsoft and Google

One of the unique things about AWS is that we have two container offerings at the high level via ECS and EKS; most other people just have the one, Singh said. And they appeal to a different type of customer in many cases, sometimes different people in the same company, different departments in the same organization. But what it means is that customers have choices. They don't have to try and fit into one model. Its also allowed us to think and identify opportunities where we want to go higher up the stack and ship things for them.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) its homegrown and first managed container service launched in 2015 was pegged as the most widely adopted cloud-managed orchestration system among cloud-native developers using such services in a December report from SlashData, an analyst firm focused on developers. But it maintains a tenuous lead. Thirty-three percent of developers are using Amazon ECS, according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation-commissioned report, followed by Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) at 32%.

[Amazon ECS] lead has arguably been crumbling with no gain to bring home, while Google Kubernetes Engine has been closing in with a substantial growth of 4 percentage points in the last 12 months, the report stated.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), launched almost three years after GKE, is used by 30% of developers surveyed and had the largest year-over-year gain at eight percentage points. A quarter of developers, meanwhile, said they used Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service, and 17% used Red Hat OpenShift Online or hosted OpenShift on a third-party cloud provider.

AWS would not provide up-to-date usage and growth statistics for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS beyond 2019 figures posted to its website.

Container orchestration system preferences shifted among edge developers, who lean towards using the open-source Kubernetes for containerized applications, according to the SlashData report. Sixty-seven percent of developers said they used GKE, while 57% used Amazon EKS and half turned to Amazon ECS.

The majority of Amazon ECS customers investment advisory firm The Vanguard Group and Canadian financial services startup Neo Financial among them are running on the serverless AWS Fargate compute engine instead of AWS flagship Amazon EC2 compute service, according to Singh.

Almost every new ECS customer is running on Fargate, he said. They like the fact that they dont have to think about servers, they dont think about clusters theyre just paying for the services that theyre running.

AWS is focused on making applications easier to use on Fargate and making it more powerful by adding capabilities such as support for GPUs and larger task sizes.

Capabilities like that the ability to run even larger applications are a big part of where our Fargate roadmap is focused in addition to providing people more visibility into what theyre running, because Fargate hides a lot from you, Singh said. We released a bunch of features last year to make that easier for them, like ECS Exec.

AWS also is moving from Docker to containerd an industry-standard container runtime for ECS/Fargate and, potentially over time, for EKS, according to Singh.

[Its] one of the underlying components of Docker, but takes out some of the higher-level stuff, because you dont need that in those contexts, he said.

Amazon ECS is falling out of favor to a degree because of its proprietary AWS technology, according to Eric Drobisewski, senior enterprise architect at insurance provider Liberty Mutual, which is trying to minimize its use of Amazon ECS over time.

The code for that is kind of closed off to Amazon in terms of how its implemented, how its developed, Drobisewski said. Its got its own orchestration model that they built it is not Kubernetes-based. It does support open standards in terms of the artifacts you can push in but the operations model around it is really unique to it. Things that you might want to plug in service mesh gets a lot of attention and things nowadays with Istio and Linkerd a lot of those werent necessarily built as well to work in an ECS model. Amazon has definitely recognized that. Thats part of the reason they built EKS.

Liberty Mutual has put a big focus on shifting everything into Kubernetes over the last four years and has some 20,000 containers actively running as it continues to onboard new workloads and modernize existing ones.

The open-source community spoke, and Kubernetes is fully mainstream, Drobisewski said. The adoption is pretty evident across all different lines of industry in enterprise, which is powerful.

Almost 90% of Kubernetes users leverage cloud-managed services instead of running self-managed clusters a 19-point increase from 2020, according to an October report from DataDog, which provides a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.

Liberty Mutual is integrating more with Amazon EKS to shed aspects of cluster maintenance. Snapchat owner Snap, Babylon Health and banking and financial services institution HSBC also are among customers of Amazon EKS, which launched in 2018.

My opinion with EKS is that theres this false kind of belief that theres no operations involved with it, which is absolutely not true, Drobisewski said. Amazon absorbs a decent amount of operations; were aware of pieces they dont. But its a good mechanism for us to shed some of that and shift to a provider where possible.

AWS roadmaps for both ECS and EKS are public on GitHub. In addition to making its container orchestration services simpler to use and more powerful, AWS is focused on improving the developer and operator experience around software deployment, delivery and automation, and adding features for scaling, IP address management and security, according to Singh.

Deepak Singh, AWS VP of Compute ServicesPhoto: AWS

At re:Invent, a lot of announcements were related to container security because our customer base is getting to the point where they really, really care about having that level of capability, Singh said, referring to AWS annual conference late last year. We released an open-source project for Kubernetes called Karpenter, which is all around how you provision and scale Kubernetes clusters on AWS. Weve also started doing more around GitOps as a methodology.

The big problem to solve is the complexity of moving in the cloud while using a reasonable amount of money and resources, and containers and container orchestration particularly containers as a service are the primary way to work around very complicated deployments, said David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer for Deloitte Consulting.

Containers are pretty much the only way we have a possible way of abstracting ourselves away from the complexities with the federated [containers issue] and then lowering the operational costs of building these things and building these applications, he said. Its going to be a continued focus moving forward, because it has to be. Its one of the few solutions out there that doesnt make things worse. We can use it to make things better.

AWS last year launched semi-answers to hybrid and multicloud offerings from its rivals Google Clouds Anthos platform and Microsofts Azure Arc with Amazon EKS Anywhere and ECS Anywhere, after announcing the products at re:Invent 2020.

The current Amazon EKS Anywhere deployment option, which arrived last September, allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters in their own data centers using VMware vSphere, with optional support from AWS. Bare metal support is expected this year.

What weve done is basically take the Kubernetes distribution that underlies EKS, packaged it up, open-sourced it with all the operational tooling which is identical to how we operate underneath the hood for EKS, so they get the same behavior and we will support it, Singh said.

ECS Anywhere is a similar feature for Amazon ECS that launched last May to allow customers to run and manage container workloads on their on-premises infrastructure. It can be used with any virtual machine VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V or OpenStack or bare metal server running a supported operating system.

You can point ECS to running on EC2, to running on Fargate, to running on a Raspberry Pi in your living room it doesnt care to some degree, Singh said. As long as you point it to compute capacity, you can then use ECS to run them. The difference is you can run EKS Anywhere without actually even connecting to AWS, if you wanted to. With ECS Anywhere, you do need to maintain that connection.

AWS previewed EKS Anywhere and ECS Anywhere in 2020 as working on any infrastructure without any reference to multicloud, which, as noted, isnt its favorite word. That means you can use those tools to manage applications running on Microsoft or Google Cloud, but you wont hear a lot of AWS executives talking about this feature.

You can run EKS Anywhere or ECS Anywhere on any infrastructure as long as its running the supported platforms or operating systems," a spokesperson told Protocol this week.

But the tools dont allow for real cloud-neutral functionality, said Jason Gregson, global head of AWS Operations and Programs at DoiT International, a multicloud software and managed service provider.

It's more of an enabler than it is really a set of tooling to actually allow you to do vendor-agnostic cloud computing around containers, Gregson said. The compute element that's running the software yeah, absolutely that's agnostic. The part that actually allows customers to use it no. Fundamentally, the architecture around it changes. It will run the application, but you've still got to do the embedding, and you've still got to do the integration. [You] still need to be able to allow customers to come in, talk to that web service and get the data they need to come out. That part changes everywhere.

Both Amazon EKS Anywhere and ECS Anywhere are off to a good start, according to Singh.

Theres already been customers who have adopted them at scale for a variety of workloads, ranging from gaming, machine learning, data prep to just running enterprise IT, he said. By next year, we should know whether the Anywhere versions of AWS container services helped it maintain its lead over the competition.

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