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WSJ report claims that AWS commands 41%, Microsoft Azure 20% and Google Cloud 6%

by curiousmindz on 1/1/22, 4:12 PM with 12 comments

• by curiousmindz on 1/1/22, 4:14 PM

  I'm surprised that GCP is claimed to have less than the third of Azure's market share. And AWS is still comfortably in first place.

  It also depends a lot on how they count these market shares. Once we go past the basic renting of CPU/Disk, it gets tricky: How far is a service still considered as part of the "cloud market". For example, renting a virtual machine to use as a desktop-in-the-cloud would count, but what about 'renting' a machine to play games? (Like with Xbox, Luna or Stadia) Same question with productivity/office services.

• by Kstarek on 1/1/22, 8:05 PM

  Im not sure how they calculated this, I work in Finance for a Equity Research team that covers MSFT and while we estimate Cloud Revs for each, MSFT doesn't actually break out Azure revs. It's part of MSFT Intelligent Cloud which also includes: "several products other than Azure, including SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, consulting services and support."

• by neom on 1/1/22, 4:32 PM

  The article is behind a paywall and I have no clue how to bypass the WSJ paywall, printfrindly trick doesn't work. However, the video at the top, towards the end, is decent (first half till 2:00 is explaining dif between pub and priv cloud)