Vendor Overview and Outlook: Amazon Web Services in HPC

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Intersect360 Research report

presents an overview and outlook for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the worldwide high performance computing (HPC) market, as of December 2019.

AWS is a major vendor of cloud-based services for the worldwide HPC market, as well as certain on-premises solutions in specialized cases. Intersect360
Research tracks cloud usage and adoption in HPC, including cloud revenue segmented into major categories: raw compute cycles, storage, environment
hosting, and application hosting. Intersect360 Research tracks cloud providers as part of our HPC User Site Census survey. Because guidance from
vendors is limited, Intersect360 Research does not publish revenue shares for cloud providers in HPC. However, we do provide estimated ranges for
the top three providers, including AWS.

Drawing on market tracking and surveys from the Intersect360 Research HPC advisory service, this report includes:

  • Estimated market share range for 2018 for AWS as an HPC cloud provider, with comparisons to other major vendors
  • Relevant supporting data from Intersect360 Research end-user surveys
  • SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
  • Recommendations to AWS

Note that Amazon is also a major consumer of IT as a hyperscale organization. Intersect360 Research tracks this consumption separately as part of its
Hyperscale market advisory service. This report focuses on AWS as a vendor of cloud technologies to other organizations running HPC applications.

“Vendor Overview and Outlook” reports from Intersect360 Research are not sponsored content. Intersect360 Research chooses vendors to cover in such reports
based on their position in the marketplace, and the choice to publish this report does not imply the existence—or lack thereof—of a client
relationship with the company profiled. The full Intersect360 Research neutrality statement is available on the web at www.intersect360.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

AWS IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Key Products

2018 Market Performance

Figure 1. Named System/Computing Vendors in HPC User Site Census Survey

SWOT ANALYSIS

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats