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Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and Google (GCP) control 68% of global cloud infrastructure
webRelevant to AI safety discussions around compute governance, since cloud infrastructure concentration means a small number of companies have outsized influence over who can train frontier AI models and at what scale.
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Statista market share data showing that Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform together dominate approximately 68% of the global cloud infrastructure services market. This concentration of compute infrastructure among three vendors has significant implications for AI development, governance, and the distribution of AI capabilities worldwide.
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- •Three companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) collectively control roughly 68% of global cloud infrastructure, creating extreme market concentration.
- •AWS holds the largest individual share, followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
- •This oligopoly over cloud compute directly shapes who can train and deploy large-scale AI systems.
- •Infrastructure concentration creates potential single points of failure and leverage for AI governance interventions.
- •The dominance of US-based hyperscalers raises questions about global equity and access in AI development.
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In the fourth quarter of 2024, the most popular vendor in the cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon Web Services (AWS), controlled ** percent of the entire market. Microsoft Azure takes second place with ** percent market share, followed by Google Cloud with ** percent market share. Together, these three cloud vendors account for ** percent of total spend in the fourth quarter of 2024. Organizations use cloud services from these vendors for machine learning, data analytics, cloud native development, application migration, and other services.
AWS Services
Amazon Web Services is used by many organizations because it offers a wide variety of services and products to its customers that improve business agility while being secure and reliable. One of AWS’s most used services is Amazon EC2, which lets customers create virtual machines for their strategic projects while spending less time on maintaining servers. Another important service is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), which offers a secure file storage service. In addition, Amazon also offers security, website infrastructure management, and identity and access management solutions.
Cloud infrastructure services
Vendors offering cloud services to a global customer base do so through different types of cloud computing , which include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Further, there are different cloud computing deployment models available for customers, namely private cloud and public cloud, as well as community cloud and hybrid cloud . A cloud deployment model is defined based on the location where the deployment resides, and who has access to and control over the infrastructure.
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Cloud infrastructure services vendor market share worldwide from fourth quarter 2017 to fourth quarter 2024
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