Today, Synergy Research Group released data that showed Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), despite rising growth from Microsoft Azure, to achieve a five-year high market share among cloud infrastructure service provider providers.
AWS accounted for 30 percent of the worldwide market in the fourth quarter of 2013 due to a 25 percent revenue growth over the previous quarter.
This growth made AWS No. AWS was ranked No. 1 for the year.
Cloud Provider 2014 Market Share Amazon Web Services 28 percent Microsoft 10 Percent IBM 7 per Cent Google 5 per Salesforce 4 percent Rackspace 3 Percent This impressive lead over Microsoft is even though Redmond’s software giant saw the highest revenue growth year on year. Google came in second.
The research company stated that “all three cloud operators outperformed total market growth and gained market shares.” “IBM’s growth was broadly in line the market, so its overall market share remained steady, while it maintained its lead in the private hybrid service segment.”
Synergy estimated the burgeoning market — counting private and hybrid clouds and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings — are approaching a $5 billion milestone.
John Dinsdale, a company executive, stated that “many barriers to cloud adoption are now gone” and that the market is on a strong growth path. “The momentum at AWS, Microsoft is especially impressive. They have an ever-expanding portfolio of services, and they are also benefitting greatly from a slowdown of the aggressive price competition that was a feature in the first half 2014.
