EMA Products to Watch in 2022/2023

Award Winners

What Are EMA Products to Watch

Infrastructure as Code

Pulumi received the EMA Products to Watch award in the Infrastructure as Code category.

Complete research report available at the EMA website from May 4, 2022 (free for EMA subscribers). 

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Live Twitter Hashtag Correlations by Number of Retweets

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Differentiation in 2022
In 2022, every company is a software company. Therefore, the ability to release higher-quality software faster, more frequently, at a lower price point and with more targeted capabilities than the competition is crucial to business success in 2022. 

Why this New Award Was Needed
EMA created the “EMA Products to Watch in 2022/2023 Guide” for anyone looking
for data-driven and transparent market research and product recommendations. Our guide includes many charts and data points interesting for C-levels skimming through while providing the depth needed for more technical roles aiming to dive into detailed market metrics and product characteristics. Note that this guide is a living project, with ”EMA Products to Watch” published on an ongoing basis. 

Key Evaluation Criteria
EMA Products to Watch in 2022/2023 enhance an organization’s ability to rapidly develop and continuously release high-quality products and services at a competitive price point and in a compliant manner, while leaving room for innovation. 

5 Product Goals

Delivering higher quality products faster and at a lower cost is key for successful digital transformation. At the same time, compliance needs to shift left and time for innovation has to be maximized.

6 Key Perspectives

There are 6 core personas involved in the software development, release, and operations process.

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Category: Infrastructure as Code

• IaC Topology
• Top 10 Public Cloud IaC Topics
• DevOps Topology
• Top 8 Platforms

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The topic map shows the correlations between key topics from the previous 500 questions asked on StackOverflow that were related to "Infrastructure as Code" (data from May 3, 2022).
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Key Observations

1. Infrastructure as Code is closely connected to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
2. Each one of the three hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) have their own Infrastructure as Code solutions (Amazon Cloud Formation and Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Azure Resource Manager and Bicep, and Google Cloud Deployment Manager).
3. Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible are popular due to their ability to work across the three hyperscalers).
4. Kubernetes is a critical technology for deploying and running applications across clouds. 

The chart shows the current popularity of IaC-related public cloud technologies based on the machine-learning based analysis of 1,000 questions from May 2, 2022, on StackOverflow. 
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Key Observations:

1. AWS CDK and CloudFormation are the top public cloud-specific IaC platforms. 
2. Azure Bicep holds the number three spot.
3. Azure DevOps is the number one cloud-specific DevOps pipeline.

The chart shows the close relationships between DevOps in General (orange), infrastructure as code (green), the CI/CD pipeline (red), GitOps pink, and Linux scripting (purple). Created on the basis of 1,000 random comments within the DevOps Subreddit (on May 3, 2022).

Key Observations

1. Infrastructure as code, including container management, and automation are the central DevOps topics in 2022.
2. CI/CD tools now focus on deploying application and infrastructure code.
3. GitOps centrally manages application and infrastructure code. 
4. Linux skills and Python programming are critical in DevOps. 

Top 8 Automation and IaC Platform by GitHub Stars