Report: Microsoft, Google, And IBM Maintain Public Cloud Dominance
The growth is at expense of smaller providers.
New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40%, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google, and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market. In aggregate the three have increased their worldwide market share by almost five percentage points over the last year and together now account for 23% of the total public IaaS and PaaS market, helped by particularly strong growth at Microsoft and Google. The next ten cloud providers in the ranking have slipped off the pace a little, though this group does include Alibaba and Oracle who continue to grow at impressive rates. There is then a very long tail of small-to-medium sized cloud service providers, whose collective market share has now dropped to just 18%.