The Hybrid Illusion: Why AWS is Losing the Enterprise Control Plane
Published: February 26, 2026
Duration: 1:10:59
Most organizations believe AWS is winning the cloud war. They’re looking at the wrong battlefield. Yes, AWS dominates infrastructure.
Yes, they run more workloads than anyone else.
Yes, they won the first era of cloud computing. But the enterprise war has moved. The fight is no longer about compute, storage, or service catalogs.
It’s about identity, policy, and governance across hybrid environments. Over 80% of enterprises are hybrid — and hybrid isn’t a transition state. It’s the end state. In a hybrid world, the winner isn’t the provider with the most instances.
It’s the provider...
Yes, they run more workloads than anyone else.
Yes, they won the first era of cloud computing. But the enterprise war has moved. The fight is no longer about compute, storage, or service catalogs.
It’s about identity, policy, and governance across hybrid environments. Over 80% of enterprises are hybrid — and hybrid isn’t a transition state. It’s the end state. In a hybrid world, the winner isn’t the provider with the most instances.
It’s the provider...