PUBLISHER: QYResearch | PRODUCT CODE: 1866617
PUBLISHER: QYResearch | PRODUCT CODE: 1866617
The global market for Cloud Computing was estimated to be worth US$ 218502 million in 2024 and is forecast to a readjusted size of US$ 450735 million by 2031 with a CAGR of 12.2% during the forecast period 2025-2031.
Cloud Computing is a term that describes a broad range of technology services. It is often described as a stack, as a response to the broad range of services built on top of one another under the moniker "Cloud".
Global Cloud Computing key players include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Aliyun, Google Cloud Platform, etc. Global top five manufacturers hold a share over 50%. North America is the largest market, with a share over 35%, followed by EU and Japan, both have a share over 35%. In terms of product, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the largest segment, with a share over 50%. And in terms of application, the largest application is Large Enterprises, followed by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Government, etc.
Market Drivers:
1. Economic Drivers: Cost Efficiency and Financial Flexibility
This is often the most immediate and compelling reason for businesses to adopt cloud computing.
Shift from Capital Expenditure (CapEx) to Operational Expenditure (OpEx): Cloud computing eliminates the massive upfront cost of purchasing and maintaining physical hardware (servers, data centers, networking equipment). Instead, companies pay a predictable, recurring subscription fee or only for the resources they use, treating IT as an operational expense. This dramatically improves cash flow and frees up capital for other investments.
Reduced IT Operational Costs: The cloud provider manages the underlying infrastructure, including maintenance, security patches, power, cooling, and physical security. This significantly reduces the need for a large in-house IT team dedicated to routine maintenance, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives.
2. Technological Innovation and Access to Advanced Tools
The cloud is a platform for innovation, not just infrastructure.
Access to Cutting-Edge Technologies: Cloud providers offer on-demand access to advanced services like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, big data analytics, and serverless computing. Companies can experiment with and integrate these technologies without making huge investments in specialized hardware and expertise.
Focus on Core Business: By offloading the undifferentiated "heavy lifting" of IT infrastructure to the cloud, organizations can redirect their precious technical talent and resources toward developing products and services that differentiate them in the market.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Cloud computing provides robust, scalable, and more cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) and backup solutions. Data can be replicated across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, ensuring business continuity in the event of a local failure or disaster.
3. Data and Analytics Drivers
The cloud is the foundation for the modern data-driven enterprise.
Centralized Data and Big Data Analytics: The cloud allows organizations to aggregate vast amounts of data from disparate sources into a single, scalable repository (data lakes). This enables powerful analytics and business intelligence, uncovering insights that drive better decision-making.
This report aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of the global market for Cloud Computing, focusing on the total sales revenue, key companies market share and ranking, together with an analysis of Cloud Computing by region & country, by Type, and by Application.
The Cloud Computing market size, estimations, and forecasts are provided in terms of sales revenue ($ millions), considering 2024 as the base year, with history and forecast data for the period from 2020 to 2031. With both quantitative and qualitative analysis, to help readers develop business/growth strategies, assess the market competitive situation, analyze their position in the current marketplace, and make informed business decisions regarding Cloud Computing.
Market Segmentation
By Company
Segment by Type
Segment by Application
By Region
Chapter Outline
Chapter 1: Introduces the report scope of the report, global total market size. This chapter also provides the market dynamics, latest developments of the market, the driving factors and restrictive factors of the market, the challenges and risks faced by manufacturers in the industry, and the analysis of relevant policies in the industry.
Chapter 2: Detailed analysis of Cloud Computing company competitive landscape, revenue market share, latest development plan, merger, and acquisition information, etc.
Chapter 3: Provides the analysis of various market segments by Type, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different market segments.
Chapter 4: Provides the analysis of various market segments by Application, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different downstream markets.
Chapter 5: Revenue of Cloud Computing in regional level. It provides a quantitative analysis of the market size and development potential of each region and introduces the market development, future development prospects, market space, and market size of each country in the world.
Chapter 6: Revenue of Cloud Computing in country level. It provides sigmate data by Type, and by Application for each country/region.
Chapter 7: Provides profiles of key players, introducing the basic situation of the main companies in the market in detail, including product revenue, gross margin, product introduction, recent development, etc.
Chapter 8: Analysis of industrial chain, including the upstream and downstream of the industry.
Chapter 9: Conclusion.