• Offers competitive pricing
• Industry leadership
• Complies with regulations
• Is the most secure cloud
• Makes it easy to migrate to the cloud
• Quality of technical documentation
• Has a platform that is easy to hire skilled developers and IT staff to work on
• Fast pace of new service/feature delivery
• Best platform for development
• Has global coverage
• Supports integration with and portability to other cloud platforms (e.g., “multi-cloud”)
• Has a clear and understandable collection of products and services
• Offers the broadest and deepest set of cloud features and services
• Is easy to integrate with existing software and business processes
• Offers high quality technical support
• Easy to estimate costs
• Developer and partner ecosystem
• Is the leader in generative AI
• Easy to use
• Ensures my organization’s data is always available (e.g., 99.999% uptime)