Cloud Computing Statistics 2026

Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services rose 55% year over year to an estimated $167.7 billion, according to Synergy Research Group, now part of TechInsights.

Synergy estimates that trailing 12-month cloud infrastructure service revenues, including IaaS, PaaS, and hosted private cloud services, reached $558 billion.

Public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services make up most of the market. They grew 59% in Q3.

AI-specific cloud services now account for about one-third of the total market.

According to Omdia, global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached US$110.9 billion in Q4 2025, reflecting year-on-year growth of 29%.

Looking ahead to 2026, Omdia forecasts that global cloud infrastructure services spending will grow by 27%, with competitive differentiation increasingly shaped by infrastructure scale, capital efficiency and the strength of AI agent-related platform capabilities.

Global spending on public cloud services is forecast to surpass $1 trillion in 2026—growing over 21%—and is expected to double by 2029

PaaS will be the fastest-growing deployment model, expanding over 37% year-over-year in 2026.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 292 31.3 367 25.7

End-user spending on public cloud services in India is forecast to grow 28.1% to total $17.5 billion in 2026, up from $13.7 billion in 2025

Australian organizations are expected to spend more than A$33.6 billion on public cloud services in 2026, an increase of 17.9% from 2025

Amazon retained the largest share of the Q3 worldwide market at 26%.

Microsoft and Google continued to post substantially higher growth rates than Amazon, while holding a 19% and 16% market share, respectively.

Q2’s worldwide market share was 28%, 20%, and 15%, respectively.

The leadership of the major cloud providers is even more pronounced in public cloud, where the top three account for 67% of the market.

The U.S. market grew by 49% in Q2, which was well above the worldwide average.

AWS remained the leader in the global cloud infrastructure market in Q4 2025, with a 32% market share and 24% year-over-year revenue growth, up from the previous quarter.

Microsoft Azure remained the world’s second-largest cloud service provider in Q4 2025, with a 22% market share and year-on-year revenue growth of 39%.

For public cloud provider usage, AWS (83%) was slightly ahead of Azure (79%) for active enterprise workloads; Google Cloud Platform remains a distant third.

AWS segment sales increased 39% year-over-year to $46.0 billion.

with over 39% year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 ($184 billion revenue run rate)

Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion and increased 30% (up 31% in constant currency)

Azure revenue increased 48%

Commercial remaining performance obligation increased 73% to $677 billion

Google Cloud delivered record growth as revenues increased 103% to $30.7 billion

we had $ 567.7 billion of remaining performance obligations (“revenue backlog”), of which $ 560.8 billion related to Google Cloud.

Q1 Cloud Infra (IaaS) Revenue up 121% in USD & up 120% in constant currency to $7.4 billion.

Remaining Performance Obligations or RPO up $209 billion year-over-year to $664 billion

We continue to expect 2026 cash capital expenditures to be approximately $220 billion.

driven primarily by a year-over-year increase of $94.8 billion in purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives.

primarily due to a $20.0 billion increase in additions to property and equipment

approximately 60 % of technical infrastructure assets were comprised of servers and network equipment.

Data Center Systems 879 73.8 1,366 55.5

52.74% of EU enterprises used paid cloud computing services in 2025, mostly for e-mail, office software and storage of files.

The share of enterprises using paid cloud computing services was particularly high among large enterprises where 84.67% reported purchasing such services in 2025, an increase of 6.9 pp compared with 2023.

In 2025, 66.78% of medium-sized enterprises used purchased cloud computing services compared with 59.09% in 2023.

Among small businesses, the share of enterprises using paid cloud computing services increased in the same time period by 7.48 pp to 49.3%

In Finland (79.21%), Italy (75.6%), Malta (74.87%), Ireland (73.04%) and Sweden (72%) at least 70% of enterprises used paid cloud computing services.

Among the enterprises that reported using paid cloud computing, some 85.15% relied on a cloud solution for their e-mail

In 2025, 52.74% of EU enterprises reported using paid cloud services and a high proportion (40.89% of the total) reported purchasing at least one of the sophisticated services and were hence classified as highly dependent on cloud services

31% of businesses said that they use a public cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud

Large businesses were more likely to use public cloud providers (60%) than small (35%), micro (32%) businesses and sole traders (30%).

Overall, 20% of businesses that stored data away from their premises said that their business been impacted by server or cloud outage or downtime

In contrast to AI technologies, the most commonly used ICT in 2023 was cloud computing (48%), marking an increase of 3 percentage points from 2021.

Businesses in the information and cultural industries sector were also the most likely to use cloud computing (81%) in 2023.

Alongside this shift, the report shows cloud-based AI workloads are surging, causing an increase in wasted cloud spend (29%) for the first time in five years.

While managing cloud spend remains a top challenge (85%), organizations are applying more mature FinOps practices, with 63% having established FinOps teams and 64% reporting value delivered to business units.

More than three-quarters (76%) of large enterprises now spend over $5 million monthly on cloud services.

98% now manage AI spend (up from 31% two years ago).

90% of respondents now manage SaaS or have plans to (up from 65% in 2025)

82% of container users now run Kubernetes in production, up from 66% in 2023.

98% of surveyed organizations reported that they have adopted cloud native techniques