Leader: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The world’s leading cloud computing provider won the gold medal for execution on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and fourth for vision.

AWS provides AI services, including Amazon SageMaker and other popular language and vision services, designed to automate the full AI development and operationalization cycle.

The Seattle, Wash.-based cloud unit of tech giant Amazon allows customers to build solutions on their own, with the assistance of dedicated AWS personnel, or with the help of consulting partners. AWS is a top choice for production workloads, due to low operational costs and the breadth of its AI services and infrastructure.

Strength: AWS excels in terms of AI operationalization and production scalability. Amazon SageMaker enablers developers to deploy trained models in production environments with a single click. AWS is steadily expanding its presence in the cloud AI developer market by attracting hundreds of thousands of customers to its AI services.

Weakness: AWS is the only ‘Leader’ ranked in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant that is lacking a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud vision. Customers looking for multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions from AWS have limited options and will likely need to partner with other vendors.