rates, The market for services and infrastructure around the so-called Cloud of the big players such as Amazon and Microsoft for the fantastic growth. Europe has fallen back in this race. The music plays once again in the United States and in China.

Top 10 Cloud providers

It is a market that flushes the providers billion in the coffers. The two Big players in the Cloud infrastructure market are companies that are more likely to be in other contexts is known. Amazon, for example, is predominantly used as an online retailer seen. In fact, however, the division of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in the Cloud-Segment. About 32 percent of the global market share in the third quarter of 2018, has calculated the Research company Canalys.

Fantastic growth

The annual growth of AWS in the Cloud market in the past ten quarters on average a little less than 50 per cent, writes John Dinsdale, chief analyst at the Synergy Research Group. In the third quarter of 2018, Amazon’s revenues increased in the Segment by a whopping 46 percent to almost 6.7 billion dollars.

The global number two of the Software company Microsoft. The Numbers from Microsoft are not listed Azure. Experts estimate, however, is that Microsoft’s Cloud division, in a narrower sense, Azure, contributes seven percent to the annual Revenues, in total, more than seven billion. And the growth is just huge. In the first quarter of 2018/19, it fell from 89 percent to 76 percent. Previously, it had been but regularly solid over 90 percent. Microsoft puts Amazon so getting closer. With a market share of eight percent, Google Cloud occupies the third rank. Place four of the Chinese competitor Alibaba occupied.