Azure a Dominant Player in Cloud

According to our friends at Statista, the Cloud Infrastructure business as a whole saw revenues of $27 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing the total revenues for the 2019 year to $96 billion. If you're curious like me, you have questions like who's the market leader, and how is the pie split up across the different participants?

Amazon and Microsoft are the big daddies of Cloud Infrastructure, together they control over half of the cloud infrastructure pie which is estimated to eclipse $100 billion this year. I say $100 billion like it's chump change, but this is massive for an industry that was in its infancy in 2006. Back when Satya Nadella was pitching this idea to the execs at Microsoft.

The latest on Cloud drama is the $10 billion contract by the Pentagon where Amazon is challenging the US governments decision to go with Microsoft. The company is citing the public feud between President Donald Trump and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the reason for them not landing project Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI).

The infographic below shows who's leading the worldwide cloud infrastructure/computing race by market share.

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