Cloud Spending Explodes as Rivals Chase AWS with Higher Growth Rates
Virtualizationreview | February 10, 2020
Two recent reports on cloud infrastructure spending show an explosion in an industry still dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), although rivals led by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are beating the kingpin in growth rates. While the AWS lead is huge, reports indicate the cloud giant's growth rate roughly matches the industry average while several competitors are outpacing it, but they have a long way to go to usurp the champion. In the meantime, they have to settle for bigger pieces of an exploding pie.