IoT Dev Survey Names AWS Top Cloud Service, Java No. 1 Language — ADTmag
The Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud is No. 1 among Internet of Things (IoT) developers, who prefer to work with Java, says a new survey.
For the fourth year, IoT developer preferences were measured in a survey backed by the Eclipse Foundation’s Eclipse IoT Working Group.
As in many other surveys concerning cloud computing and programming language choices, AWS and Java again reigned supreme in the new online survey, conducted early this year. While AWS is the overwhelming leader, this survey — just as with others on various topics — showed the Microsoft Azure cloud is trying hard at No. 2. In the IoT space, however the Google Cloud Platform is faltering, according to the fourth annual IoT Developer Survey.
“Seeing AWS ahead of the pack is no surprise,” commented the point person behind the survey, Benjamin Cabé. “It seems to be the public cloud platform of choice for developers, according to the recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey, and one of the most loved platforms for development in general. And looking at the same survey, it seems Google is not really doing great with their Cloud Platform (it is used by 8.0 percent of the respondents vs. 24.1 percent for AWS).
Indeed, while GCP “is struggling to get adoption from IoT developers,” AWS was mentioned as the IoT cloud service of choice by nearly 52 percent of respondents in the Eclipse-backed survey, a 21 percent increase from the 2017 study. Microsoft Azure, meanwhile, was reportedly named by about 31 percent of respondents, a 17 percent hike over last year’s survey. Google came in at almost 19 percent share, an 8 percent decrease.