{"id":22196,"date":"2016-04-29T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/apr\/29\/latest-research-shows-three-clear-tiers-cloud-infrastructure-services\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:49:48","slug":"latest-research-shows-three-clear-tiers-in-cloud-infrastructure-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/latest-research-shows-three-clear-tiers-in-cloud-infrastructure-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest research shows three clear tiers in cloud infrastructure services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The dominance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in cloud infrastructure has long been apparent – but a new note from analyst house Synergy Research argues the space is in three distinct tiers, with AWS all on its own at the top table.<\/p>\n

Amazon currently holds 31% of the global market share, with Microsoft, IBM and Google between them holding 22%. The next 20 vendors, including CenturyLink, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce and VMware, have 27% share between them. As previous research indicated, Microsoft and Google are – very slowly – gaining ground on the AWS juggernaut, with more than 100% year over year growth compared to Amazon’s 57%. The 20 vendors in the third tier are growing on average by 41% each year.<\/p>\n

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The figures come amidst Amazon’s first quarter revenues published earlier this week. The cloud arm noted a particular uplift, with revenues rising 64% year over year and reaching $2.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Synergy argues that quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues are not ‘comfortably’ above the $7bn mark.<\/p>\n

 “This is a market that is so big and is growing so rapidly that companies can be growing by 10-30% per year and might feel good about themselves and yet they’d still be losing market share,” said John Dinsdale, Synergy Research chief analyst and research director.<\/p>\n

“The big question for them is whether or not they are building a sustainable and profitable business,” he added. “This can be done by focusing on specific regions or specific services, but the bulk of the market demands huge scale, a broad footprint, very deep pockets and a long-term corporate focus.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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