http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/amazon-links-8000-indian-firms-to-cloud-services/articleshow/40536823.cms
Users:
8,000 companies in India that have already boarded the AWS ship, including large enterprises such as Tata Motors, Reliance Entertainment, NDTV, Narayana Health, Macmillan India, EROS International, Malayala Manorama and Sony Entertainment.
Competition:
Amazon's aggressive pricing has also forced its competitors to make similar price cuts, making cloud computing more compelling for Indian enterprises. And competition is increasing in the cloud market. IBM has been spending millions of rupees advertising its Softlayer cloud as it tries to challenge AWS' dominance while Microsoft has indicated plans to set up a data centre in India to push its cloud offerings in the country.
Issues:
-territorial issues in holding the data in the country
-large-scale adoption of cloud among Indian enterprises is still some time away. "It will take another two or three years before corporates start using the public cloud in a strategic manner. Part of that is because of the ageold concerns — network connectivity, availability and even data privacy," Mishra said. "But that could change as public cloud providers start investing in data centres in India."
"Google fills the gap between IaaS and PaaS":
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