Technology & Business2010–2025

Cloud Infrastructure Share

The cloud race begins as an AWS land grab, then Microsoft turns Azure into the only true challenger. Google keeps climbing, Alibaba rises with China, and the old enterprise names fight to stay visible as the big three absorb most of the growth.

Source: Synergy Research Group market-share releases Provider shares are annualized and reconstructed from public Synergy/industry snapshots; use as an illustrative trend race. illustrative data Updated 2026-07-05

The race in numbers

1lead change
15years covered
9contenders
Amazon AWSlongest reign — 8 yrs at #1

Final standings · 2025

  1. 1Amazon AWS29.0%
  2. 2Microsoft Azure24.0%
  3. 3Others19.0%
  4. 4Google Cloud13.0%
  5. 5Alibaba Cloud4.0%

Key moments