Here are the finalists for the Cloud Excellence Awards 2021

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The Cloud Excellence Awards recognise the very best of the UK's cloud industry, and we're pleased to share the finalists with you today: the people, projects and companies that really stand out from the crowd.

The cloud brings huge benefits in agility, scalability and resilience - all of which have been crucial over the last 16 months. Proper use means organisations can respond quickly to changing market conditions; experiment with new ideas, products and tools without risk; and efficiently set up new infrastructure and platforms. They can even remove the management overhead of parts of the IT estate they'd would prefer not to keep in-house.

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This year's categories cover all of these aspects, and more. As well as returning favourites like Best Cloud Project and Cloud Professional of the Year, we've added several new categories to reflect the changing market, including Best Use of Cloud in the Pandemic, Best Use of AI in the Cloud and Multi-Cloud Solution of the Year. As these technologies gather pace, there are success stories that need to be told.

That also holds true in some of our existing awards, which we've split up into new sub-categories. Most Innovative Cloud Product or Service has new areas specifically for DevOps, edge computing and infrastructure, while Cloud Security Product of the Year now specifically covers tools dedicated to identity & access management, AI & automation and network security.

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For the first time in more than 12 months, we'll hold this year's Cloud Excellence Awards as a physical event: the winners will be announced at a live awards ceremony on Thursday 23rd September, in London. Click here to book your place.