Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily news and commentary show, hosted by Cloud Wars Founder Bob Evans. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the Cloud.
In this episode, Bob provides a major update to the “Data Center Wars” rankings, which aim to evaluate cloud service providers based on their networks of available data centers worldwide.
Highlights
00:01 — A major component of the booming cloud business is the race between major cloud vendors to expand their network of data centers around the world.
01:30 — Microsoft leads all vendors in regional cloud data centers with more than 60. Following Microsoft are Oracle (39), Google Cloud (34), and AWS (26).
02:15 — There is not yet a standardized metric for business customers to evaluate data center availability. Data centers, regions, availability zones, and domains all carry slightly different definitions among cloud infrastructure providers.
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