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Report Shows AWS Has Twice the Market Share of Microsoft, IBM [...]
Report Shows AWS Has Twice the Market Share of Microsoft, IBM and Google Combined
📅 - When it comes to the public cloud market, AWS or Amazon Web Services has a 45% share of the worldwide market. This is more than twice as much as the next three largest provides combined, according to Synergy Research Group.
Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Google are the largest cloud providers in the world with more than half of the worldwide market share and it's growing every day. AWS also has nearly the same amount of Public PaaS as Salesforce, IBM and Microsoft combined. However, IBM is the dominate company in the Managed Private Cloud Sector.
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