One out of five developers report they are working on cloud applications. They tend to favor Amazon Web Services at this time, but their loyalty is not set in stone.
Forrester's Jeffrey Hammond reported on the results of a recent survey his firm conducted among 1,611 developers across the globe, and found 20% were working on cloud applications. The main uses for cloud among this group are compute, storage and relational database management systems.
In terms of outside cloud vendors, Hammond reports that three companies lead the way in these three areas:
Hammond sees strong parallels between what's shaping up in the enterprise cloud market, and the enterprise software market historically: strong players dominating the market, but more of a best-of-breed buying pattern, with no clear leaders. "We’re moving away from distinct leaders in a single market segment, like IaaS or PaaS, and toward a model that mirrors a traditional buying pattern, where app development professionals choose between best of breed services (e.g., compute, storage, RDBMS, messaging, CRM) or integrated data-centers of services (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce/Heroku/Database."
Competition is always a good thing.