Useful Cloud Market Share Data: Accurate? Well, Close Enough for Horseshoes
August 9, 2023
Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid.
Anyone looking for a handy summary of data about big cloud players will find “AWS vs Google Cloud vs Microsoft Azure” worth reading. The article mentions the big folks and includes some data about smaller (although large) players; for example, Oracle. Trigger warning: The article users the term “hyperscalers” which I find a bit rizzy for my rhetorical spice cupboard.
Here are three representative items from the article. For more numbers, navigate to the original, please.
- Amazon’s worldwide [cloud] market share is 34 percent.
- The Google Cloud (bless those kind Googlers) is a bold 10 percent.
- Microsoft “cloud” [a fuzzy wuzzy nebulous and undefined word] surpassed $110 billion in annual revenue for 2022 and Azure accounted for $55 billion of the $110 billion.
Why is the cloud a big money maker? The article has an answer: Generative AI. Okay, that’s a good reason. I think there may be other factors as well.
If you collect these types of data, you will find the short write up a good reference point for a few months.
Stephen E Arnold, August 9, 2023
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