According to data collected by the Synergy Research
Group, four companies own 67% of the world’s $130
billion cloud market. Leading the pack by a large
margin is Amazon Web Services, which enjoys a
whopping 32% market share. This is followed by
Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure with 20%.
Behind the two dominant companies, Google Cloud at
9% and Alibaba Cloud at 6% round out the top four.
After that, IBM Cloud, Salesforce, Tencent Cloud, and
Oracle Cloud combined make up 12% of the market.
Between the infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-
as-a-service plans employers subscribe to and the
hosted private cloud services we use every day,
companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Alibaba
have ultimate control over our data. Google may not be
viewing everything you upload to Google Drive, for
instance, but these companies do gain access to our
personal data through the free services you use.
In the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, cloud
infrastructure services brought in $37 billion as the
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According to
data collected
by the Synergy
Research Group,
four companies
own 67% of the
world’s $130
billion cloud
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