A dominant cloud service provider isn't exactly a win for cloud computing.  Is it?

Like high-stakes races, cloud computing is at a stage where there's competitors galloping towards dominance and prized-fighter status.   As much as every technology is a move towards efficiency, to emerge as dominant market leader means an anointment for increase in users that naturally results in better ROI.

However, it's a bit strange for cloud computing service providers to be lumped in to one simplified bunch when there really are quite more layers to a cloud that to simply pick one above all at this point is to suffer a 'fruit analogy' - comparing apples with oranges and so on.

Still, we can't dismiss the fact that every company out there is aiming for the throne.  Theoretically, it is possible since we're talking technology here tied to recent history with Microsoft and currently, Google, as examples. 

It will be interesting to see how this will all turn out.  Will the cloud route Amazon picked carry it over to top cloud status for years to come or will PaaS providers prove the premise that platform is king?  Maybe this will all be nebulous talk and won't really matter because in an instant, a new disruptive technology might just  come along.

Till then, all we can do is hope that we we get instead is variety of options and remain vigilant that cloud will always be open - which is the definitive characteristic of Top Cloud we can all agree on.