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The Forrester New Wave™: Public Cloud Enterprise Container Platforms, Q3 2019
July 29, 2019
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The Seven Global Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Microsoft: Forrester's Take
our evaluation found that Microsoft azure (see figure 5):
› Leads the pack with the strongest developer experience and global reach.
5
azure offers
fully managed Kubernetes, azure Container instances for serverless autoscaling, managed red
Hat openshift, and more in nearly 30 global regions. it is committed to simplifying Kubernetes
development and cluster management in the public cloud, on-premises, and on edge devices.
› Needs to simplify container operations and security. Monitoring and container image security
scanning should be improved.
› Is the best fit for companies seeking a trusted partner to manage containers at scale.
With the widest range of fully managed container platform options and powerful Devops tool
integrations, Microsoft does the heavy lifting of container operations and frees development teams
to build new applications and improve old ones faster.
Microsoft Customer reference Summary
Customers say that easy cluster setup, integration with database and other azure services, the best
developer experience, and rock-solid support keep them highly satisfied with azure containers.
FIGUrE 5 Microsoft QuickCard
REFERENCE QUOTES
Differentiated
On par
Needs improvement
"Azure has the best integration
with our development tools and
processes."
"Azure manages the K8s control
plane for us — we don't even
have to think about it."
Orchestration & registry
Deployment models
Operations management
Security features
User experience
ALM
Integrations & APIs
Vision
Road map
Market approach
Products evaluated
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Container Registry (ACR),
Azure Service Fabric
Microsoft
Wave position
LEADER
