The dominance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the global cloud infrastructure is still undisputed, but in a market where businesses’ appetite for hybrid IT environments is growing, its competitors are getting stronger, and fast, shows a recent report from Canalys.
With 32.6% of the market share, the Amazon-owned cloud-computing platform is still a long way ahead of its two main challengers – that’s Microsoft Azure, which holds almost 17% of the market, and Google Cloud, at almost 7%.
But the devil is in the detail. When looking at the actual speed of growth for each company, it seems that AWS is being outpaced.
