5 Reasons Why Azure IoT Edge Is Industry's Most Promising Edge Computing Platform

Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge, the edge computing platform that has been in works for more than a year. Out of the top 5 public cloud platforms – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud – only Microsoft and Amazon have a sophisticated edge computing strategy. Other players are yet to figure out their story for edge computing. Amazon's edge platform is delivered through AWS Greengrass – a service that was announced at re:Invent event in 2016 and became generally available in June 2017. AWS recently added the ability to perform inferencing of machine learning models.