In some corners of the high-tech workplace, Amazon.com is more popular than Google.
Services built by Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud-computing division, were the fourth most popular workplace web application in November, up one spot from a year earlier.
That’s according to Okta, a San Francisco company whose products help companies manage employee access to web apps. Okta’s data covers its thousands of customers, and the company’s gauge offers a periodic snapshot of the winners and losers in the business of selling software that powers the workplace.
The growth in AWS comes as more companies turn to cloud computing, or using rented computing power and data storage to manage their technology. AWS’s web-based tools include databases, developer tools and other software to manage websites and other technology infrastructure,
In the latest Okta rankings, AWS edged out Google’s G Suite email and office tools, which came in at No. 5.