These are the 10 largest cloud providers in the world

The cloud market for infrastructure services has grown significantly in recent years. In 2022, global cloud computing sales are expected to be around $491 billion, up from $413 billion the year before. Trend: further increasing.

The providers with the highest sales profit in particular from the demand. Three of them, Microsoft, Amazon and Google, have been dominating the market at will for years. The three tech companies with their cloud platforms have held a combined market share of almost two-thirds for a long time.

All other cloud providers together have a market share of around one third. Among them are well-known names, which, however, have not been able to expand their market shares in the cloud computing market, or only to a small extent, in recent years.

The US computer and storage systems manufacturer from Round Rock, Texas, also brought the software company VMware, which specializes in cloud computing, on board as part of the EMC takeover in 2016. However, the VMware-supported Dell Technologies Cloud only has a market share of less than two percent, as a Technology Magazine Ranking disclosed.

The Chinese tech group’s Huawei Cloud has a market share of 18 percent in China, but has to be satisfied with a two percent market share worldwide. That could change if the international cloud offensive announced last year proves successful.

The Tencent Cloud is also based in Shenzhen, China, and has a global market share of two percent. The Wechat provider’s solution is a leader among large corporations looking to gain a foothold in China.

The Texas-based Oracle group offers its Oracle Cloud as a computing service with servers, storage network and applications via its worldwide network of company-owned data centers. The reward: a two percent global share of the cloud computing market.

The Californian cloud infrastructure provider Salesforce has specialized in CRM software. With the service cloud solution, companies should be able to automate their services and optimize customer service. The Salesforce cloud has a market share of three percent.

An equally large share of the cloud market is held by IBM, whose headquarters are in the US state of New York. The IBM cloud combines the areas of platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

The Chinese e-commerce and tech group Alibaba from Hangzhou launched its Alibaba Cloud in 2009. But more than the current five percent market share is not possible.

The Californian search engine group is one of the few providers who have been able to significantly increase their market share in recent months. After seven percent in 2020 and nine percent in 2022, Google Cloud Platform is at the beginning of 2023 according to stats around eleven percent.

Microsoft’s Azure platform also went up slightly recently. After a market share of 21 percent in 2022, it is currently 23 percent. In 2020, Azure still had 19 percent.

Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services, the cloud platform of the US e-commerce group Amazon based in Seattle, had to lose some feathers. After a market share of 34 percent in 2022, Statista reports around 32 percent for the first quarter of 2023. There were already so many in 2020.