U.S. Accounts For Almost Half Of All Major Cloud And Internet Data Centers
The companies with the broadest data center footprint are the leading hyperscale cloud providers.
New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that the U.S. now accounts for 46% of major cloud and internet data center sites. The next most prominent locations are China and Japan, with 7% and 6% respectively. The three leading countries are then followed by Australia, Singapore, Germany, UK and Brazil, each of which accounts for 3% to 5% of the total. The research is based on an analysis of the data center footprint of 17 of the world’s major cloud and internet service firms, including the largest operators in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, search, social networking, and e-commerce. In aggregate the companies now have over 230 major data center sites.
On average each of the 17 firms had 14 data center sites. The companies with the broadest data center footprint are the leading hyperscale cloud providers — AWS, IBM, and Microsoft. Each has 40 or more data center locations with at least two in each of the four regions — North America, APAC, EMEA, and Latin America. Google, Oracle, and Rackspace also have a notably broad data center presence. The remaining firms tend to have their data centers focused primarily in either the U.S. (Apple, Twitter, Salesforce, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo) or China (Tencent, Baidu). Previously Alibaba also was focused mainly in China but it has now opened data centers in the U.S., Hong Kong, and Singapore.