Microsoft Cloud Revenues Leap; Amazon Is Still Way Out in Front

RENO, NV--(Marketwired - Oct 29, 2014) - New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Microsoft clearly has the highest growth rate among the leading cloud infrastructure service operators, while Amazon (AWS) remains the dominant cloud service provider. Microsoft grew its revenues by 136% on a rolling annualized basis, resulting in its worldwide market share growing to over 10% in Q3. AWS's cloud revenues jumped again after a relatively soft second quarter, resulting in its market share nudging back up to 27%. It is notable that although AWS's percentage growth rate may be substantially lower than Microsoft's, in absolute terms AWS revenue growth over the past four quarters is greater than Microsoft's total cloud infrastructure revenue over the same period -- AWS remains in a league of its own for scale. Behind the two leaders IBM is ranked third largest cloud operator with a 7% market share, followed by Google, salesforce and Rackspace.

Microsoft Cloud Revenues Leap; Amazon Is Still Way Out in Front