The World’s Top Cloud Vendors

The Cloud Wars ranking of the 10 most-influential cloud vendors in the world. We adjust the rankings regularly, so check back for fresh insights and updates.

April 19, 2021

The booming new category of industry-specific clouds continues to drive lots of innovation and competition in the Cloud Wars:

The Cloud Wars Top 10

1	Microsoft
	Fiscal Q2 Cloud Revenue: $16.7B Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS CEO: Satya Nadella
	Acquisition underscores Nadella’s huge ambition for industry clouds
	2020 cloud revenue 31% higher than AWS; bigger than AWS + Google Cloud
	EVP of Cloud & AI Guthrie outlines need for “digital tech intensity”

2	Amazon
	Q4 Cloud Revenue: $12.7B Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS CEO: Andy Jassy
	Cloud less than 5% of global IT spend, says new Amazon CEO Jassy
	MSFT’s Nadella hammers Amazon for competing with AWS customers
	Special Report: if Slack worth $28B, then how high could AWS IPO go?

3	Google Cloud
	Q4 Cloud Revenue: $3.83B Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS CEO: Thomas Kurian
	Where does cloud need to go? ‘Digitization of industries,’ says Kurian
	How is Google Cloud doing in rapidly escalating Cloud Database Wars?
	Special Report: can world’s hottest cloud vendor sustain hypergrowth?

4	Salesforce
	Q4 Cloud Revenue: $5.82B Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS CEO: Marc Benioff
	10 reasons why Salesforce believes it will be leader in industry clouds
	With $2 billion in industry-cloud revenue, is SFDC king of verticals?
	Special Report: w/Slack, Benioff boosts big target from $35B to $50B

5	SAP
	Q4 Cloud Revenue: $2.47B Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS CEO: Christian Klein
	N.A. prez Paoni dismisses claims of customer churn: “demand is exploding”
	Klein will stay focused on customer success after broadside from Oracle
	Special Report: Huge bet on Industry Cloud to outpace Oracle, Salesforce

6	Oracle
	Fiscal Q3 Cloud Revenue (est.): $1.6B Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS CEO: Safra Catz
	CEO Catz offers 6 reasons to be bullish on cloud; demand outpaces supply
	Cloud-infrastructure biz: $2B run rate and growing in triple digits
	Special Report: defying ankle-biters, Ellison creates cloud powerhouse

7	ServiceNow
	Q4 Cloud Revenue: $1.18B Cloud Services: SaaS CEO: Bill McDermott
	Building ‘world’s greatest software company’: McDermott’s plan
	Q4 subscription-revenue jumps 32% on “workflow revolution”
	Special Report: McDermott & Co. are disrupting entire market

8	Workday
	Fiscal Q4 Cloud Revenue: $1.01B Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS CEO: Aneel Bhusri
	How do they rate vs SAP and ORCL based on 400 customer reviews?
	Co-CEO Fernandez: it’s time to liberate CFOs from ERP’s limitations
	Special Report: pushing advanced tech to rip and replace legacy IT

9	IBM
	Q4 Cloud Revenue: $7.5B Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS CEO: Arvind Krishna
	New ‘Cloud Satellite’ service shows big potential, leverages IBM’s strengths
	Q4 cloud revenue plummets to 8%—can Krishna reignite significant growth?
	Special Report: Krishna must prove much more to IBM Cloud than Red Hat

10	Snowflake
	Fiscal Q4 Cloud Revenue: $178M Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS CEO: Frank Slootman
	Slootman bets continued hypergrowth on vertical-industry strategy
	4 big steps on journey to $1 billion in data cloud revenue
	Who’s #1 cloud database: Oracle, AWS, Microsoft? Cockroach, Databricks, Mongo?

The media and some analysts perpetuate the silly myth that the cloud begins and ends with public-cloud Iaas. While IaaS is certainly important, it’s the software layers farther up the stack—PaaS and SaaS—that are driving even greater business value, innovation and differentiation for business customers.

Here at Cloud Wars, our Top 10 rankings are created from the POV of business customers, not from inside the tech-industry bubble.

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