Technology Magazine examines the top 10 worldwide cloud providers for 2023 as global cloud infrastructure spending increased to $57 billion in 2017.
The cloud, which has been expanding quickly in recent years and is now an essential component of the digital infrastructure of many businesses, offers scalable and affordable solutions for their computing requirements. Based on their market shares, the top 10 cloud infrastructure providers are examined by Technology Magazine.
1: AWS
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, United States
Market share: 34%
Amazon Web Services has grown to become the most complete and widely-used cloud computing platform, with a market share that exceeds that of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform taken together.
AWS, an Amazon company, offers metered, pay-as-you-go on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to people, businesses, and governments. With plans to add 12 additional Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand, the AWS Cloud currently spans 99 Availability Zones across 31 geographical regions across the world.
AWS was formally introduced in 2002 and presently provides more than 175 fully functional services from data centres all around the world. The company provides services to millions of customers in 190 different nations worldwide. No other cloud provider in the industry, which is regarded as a leader in the space, provides as many regions with numerous Availability Zones connected by low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant networking.
2: Microsoft Azure
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, United States
Market share: 21%
Microsoft’s Azure platform, which was first previewed in 2008 and was formally unveiled in 2010, offers a variety of cloud services, including compute, analytics, storage, and networking.
The more than 200 products and cloud services that make up the Azure platform assist businesses in overcoming obstacles and achieving their strategic goals. It offers tools that are compatible with open-source technology and supportive of all sectors.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (PaaS), and Serverless are the four basic types of cloud computing that Azure offers. Pay-as-you-go billing is employed by Microsoft Azure, which implies that customers are only billed for the particular resources they actually used each month.
Microsoft claims that Azure is the trusted cloud platform used by 95% of Fortune 500 firms, and that Azure is used by businesses of all sizes and stages of development for their digital transformation.
3: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States
Market share: 11%
The Google Cloud Platform is a collection of cloud computing services that Google offers. It employs the same internal architecture as Google does for its consumer products, including Google Search, Gmail, Drive, and YouTube. It offers a number of modular cloud services, such as computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, in addition to a set of management tools.
The public cloud infrastructure for Google Cloud Platform is a component of Google Cloud, which also offers Google Workspace (G Suite), commercial versions of Android and ChromeOS, and APIs for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.
4: Alibaba Cloud
Headquarters: Hangzhou, China
Market share: 5%
The highly scalable cloud computing and data management services developed by Alibaba Cloud, which was founded in September 2009, provide large and small businesses, financial institutions, governments, and other organisations adaptable, affordable solutions to suit their networking and information needs. Alibaba Cloud is a division of Alibaba Group, one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world. Alibaba Group’s extensive online and mobile commerce ecosystem is powered by the network that Alibaba Cloud manages and sells a full range of cloud computing services to support sellers and other third-party participants in this ecosystem.
5: IBM Cloud
Headquarters: New York, United States
Market share: 3%
Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are combined on the IBM Cloud platform to deliver an integrated experience. Both small development teams and organisations and huge corporate corporations can scale and be supported by the platform.
When hosting mission-critical workloads, IBM Cloud offers solutions that enable higher levels of compliance, security, and management, along with tried-and-true architecture patterns and techniques for quick delivery. With a next-generation hybrid cloud platform, advanced data and AI capabilities, and deep enterprise expertise across 20 industries, IBM Cloud, which is accessible in data centres all over the world and has multizone regions in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, offers the most open and secure public cloud for business.
6: Salesforce
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Market share: 3%
CRM software is a specialty of Salesforce, a company that offers cloud computing infrastructure. Users may automate service procedures, streamline workflows, and access important articles, subjects, and experts to support customer service agents using its Service Cloud solution, which is built on the Salesforce platform. Through the use of tools for field service, web chat, CTI, and social customer care, Service Cloud gives enterprises the ability to increase customer service efficiency across channels.
7: Oracle Cloud
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
Market share: 2%
Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service provided by Oracle Corporation that offers servers, storage, networks, applications, and services via a worldwide network of data centres under Oracle Corporation management.
With 41 cloud regions already accessible and nine more planned, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers the fastest-growing network of international data centres and more than 100 cloud infrastructure and platform services.
8: Tencent Cloud
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
Market share: 2%
One of the top cloud service providers in the world, Tencent Cloud aims to support foreign businesses in China. Tencent Cloud offers a strong and reliable cloud solution that is especially created to address the particular challenges faced by businesses as they expand into China. Tencent Cloud has a significant presence throughout China, global engagement teams based all over the world, and decades of experience deeply rooted in delivering optimal digital engagement to its enormous user base.
9: Huawei Cloud
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
Market share: 2%
With its several global availability zones, Huawei Cloud offers completely connected, swift, and reliable networks and services. China Internet Watch estimates that Huawei Cloud has an 18% market share of the country’s expenditure on cloud infrastructure services in 2021.
The business unveiled its “Go Cloud, Go Global” goals last year, declaring plans to offer services in 170 countries and territories worldwide.
10: Dell Technologies
Headquarters: Round Rock, Texas, United States
Market share: <2%
By providing uniform administration across private, public, and edge cloud infrastructure, Dell Technologies Cloud, powered by VMware, enables clients to select the ideal environment for each application and use case. More than 4,200 major cloud service providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, are supported by its platform. Its APEX solution makes use of Dell Technologies’ expertise to offer businesses an easy and secure way to embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure.
