Data Quadrant Awards 2025

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

SoftwareReviews names Amazon EC2, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines as Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

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business value scores
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Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Data Quadrant

Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

609Reviews

Amazon

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.

9.1

Composite
Score

+94

Emotional
Footprint

91%

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581Reviews

Google

Google Cloud

Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.

9.0

Composite
Score

+95

Emotional
Footprint

91%

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336Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

9.0

Composite
Score

+92

Emotional
Footprint

91%

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Breadth of Features

Amazon EC2

Business Value Created

Amazon EC2

Ease of Customization

Amazon EC2

Ease of Data Integration

Amazon EC2

Ease of IT Administration

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Ease of Implementation

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Amazon EC2

Quality of Features

Amazon EC2

Usability and Intuitiveness

CloudSigma

Vendor Support

OpenMetal On-Demand Private Cloud

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Breadth of Features

Amazon EC2

Business Value Created

Amazon EC2

Ease of Customization

Amazon EC2

Ease of Data Integration

Amazon EC2

Ease of IT Administration

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Ease of Implementation

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Amazon EC2

Quality of Features

Amazon EC2

Usability and Intuitiveness

CloudSigma

Vendor Support

OpenMetal On-Demand Private Cloud

Other Evaluated Vendors

74Reviews

Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

From the most comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions, to the world’s #1 enterprise database, Oracle offers the choice and flexibility to meet your business requirements.

8.7

Composite
Score

+93

Emotional
Footprint

88%

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31Reviews

OpenMetal

OpenMetal On-Demand Private Cloud

The world's first truly on-demand OpenStack private cloud platform and automated bare metal. Launch a production-ready cloud in just 45 seconds – without the expensive hardware investment or steep learning curve. Reduce costs and empower your team with secure, reliable, on-demand dedicated cloud infrastructure. Many organizations are stuck building and maintaining their own private clouds, or using a mega-cloud provider. However, building your own private cloud is complex and expensive, and the big cloud providers can be costly and inflexible. We provide an open source alternative with lower costs, more transparency and control, and greater flexibility, all tailored to your unique needs.

8.6

Composite
Score

+89

Emotional
Footprint

90%

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51Reviews

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean helps you create, automate, and manage a robust infrastructure with features like API, Floating IPs, Shared Private Networking, and Team Accounts.

8.3

Composite
Score

+86

Emotional
Footprint

87%

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42Reviews

IBM

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

IBM Cloud™ Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. Your server isn’t shared with “noisy neighbors,” it’s all yours!

8.2

Composite
Score

+94

Emotional
Footprint

89%

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20Reviews

CloudSigma

CloudSigma platform is a comprehensive turnkey software solution for Service Providers such as Managed Services Providers, System Integrators, VARs, data centre providers or Telcos who want to enter the fast growing cloud services market with their own branded offering

7.8

Composite
Score

+91

Emotional
Footprint

84%

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38Reviews

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Our R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.

7.8

Composite
Score

+88

Emotional
Footprint

83%

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For the full list of vendors in this space, click here.

SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.