Who should enter the ‘Best Cloud Infrastructure’ category?

The “Best Cloud Infrastructure” award recognizes outstanding cloud infrastructure solutions that provide businesses with scalable, reliable, and secure computing resources to support their digital transformation initiatives.

Cloud infrastructure refers to the collection of hardware, software, networking, and storage resources that are provisioned and managed in a cloud computing environment.

Cloud infrastructure forms the foundation of modern IT architectures, enabling businesses to leverage flexible and cost-effective resources to build and deploy applications, store and analyze data, and deliver innovative digital experiences to their customers.

Cloud infrastructure provides businesses with agility, scalability, and flexibility, enabling them to rapidly respond to changing market dynamics, scale their operations, and drive innovation.

Example Use Cases

Cloud infrastructure solutions entered into this award may provide a holistic approach to cloud infrastructure, or support a specific area. Here are some examples:

Compute resources form the core building blocks of cloud infrastructure, providing businesses with virtualized computing power to run applications and process data.

Includes virtual machines (VMs), containers, and serverless computing services. Enables businesses to dynamically allocate and scale computing resources based on their workload requirements.

Enables businesses to store and manage large volumes of data in the cloud, providing scalable and durable storage solutions for diverse data types and use cases.

These services include object storage, block storage, and file storage. Offers businesses flexibility in storing and accessing their data while ensuring data durability, availability, and security.

Networking infrastructure connects cloud resources and enables communication between applications, users, and data sources. Includes virtual networks, load balancers, and content delivery networks (CDNs).

Provides businesses with the connectivity and bandwidth needed to deliver high-performance, low-latency services to their users across different geographic regions.

Provides businesses with the capabilities to protect their data, applications, and infrastructure from cyber threats and ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.

These tools include identity and access management (IAM), encryption, threat detection, and compliance management services. This enables businesses to safeguard their assets and mitigate risks in the cloud.

Helps businesses optimize and streamline their cloud operations, providing visibility, control, and automation across their cloud environments.

These services include cloud management platforms, monitoring and analytics tools, and automation frameworks. This helps businesses to optimize resource utilization, improve performance, and enhance reliability and uptime.

Hall of Fame: Previous Winners

Tessell Logo

Tessell has set a new benchmark in cloud database management with its unified multi-cloud platform, earning ‘Best Cloud Infrastructure Solution’ at The Cloud Awards. Delivering exceptional scalability, cost efficiency, and performance, Tessell’s innovative approach to database modernization and seamless integration with leading cloud providers makes it a transformative solution for enterprises navigating the complexities of the cloud era.”

Lead Judge, Maneet Bansal

Best Cloud Infrastructure 2024/25, Tessell

VAST Data Platform is compelling, highlighting a data management solution built for AI’s ambitious demands. It stands out for enabling AI-driven discovery through its unified storage and compute services, aiming to revolutionize how industries tackle significant challenges. The platform addresses the shortcomings of existing data infrastructures by providing improved performance for AI applications and offering a scalable, secure, and easily manageable system. They emphasize reliability, touting impressive uptime statistics, and prioritize security, meeting the stringent needs of regulated industries.”

Judge, Prerak Garg

Best Cloud Infrastructure 2023/24, VAST Data
IBM Logo

We were impressed to see something different in Bare Metal Servers for VPC. We liked to see how, unlike with traditional SaaS offerings, Bare Metal Servers for VPC is tightly bound to the underlying hardware it is delivered on, and IBM has strong, established processes that offer the latest solutions from all hardware partners. Over 8 months since the initial release Bare Metal Servers for VPC have introduced 8 new hardware configurations, support for 5 major operating systems, and have operationalized 1000 servers across the 8 global data centers! Congratulations from everyone at The Cloud Awards.”

The Cloud Awards COO, Annabelle Whittall

Best Cloud Infrastructure 2022/23, IBM

Areas to Highlight in Your Submission

Scalability

Provisioning of computing power, storage, and networking capabilities, allowing users to scale as needed.

Reliability

Data replication mechanisms, fault-tolerant designs, and DR measures to ensure minimal downtime.

Performance

Should be designed to deliver consistently high performance for applications and services hosted on it.

Impact

Evidence any cost optimization features, such as resource monitoring and allocation tracking.

Management

Management and monitoring tools that simplify the admin and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure.

Integration

Demonstrate seamless integration capabilities with other cloud services, platforms, and tools.

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Next Steps to Enter The Cloud Awards

To enter this Cloud Awards category, or any other category in The Cloud Awards, please follow these three simple steps:

  • Download the entry form. Open up the ‘Cloud Awards Simple Form’ document.
  • Complete your form. You only need to complete the form once, even if entering multiple Cloud Awards categories.
  • Submit your entry. Head to the ‘Submit Now’ section on our website, select ‘The Cloud Awards’ and the category/categories you are entering from the list, upload your form and any other materials you would like the judges to review, and process your fees.

Since 2011, The Cloud Awards been helping organizations across the globe gain the recognition they deserve for market-leading innovation in the cloud computing and software sectors.

For a detailed breakdown of all the benefits you receive as an awards entrant as either a shortlistee, finalist or ultimate winner, please see our “Why Enter?” page. The many benefits are replicated across all international awards programs. If you have any questions about this category, please contact us.