Taking on AWS Microsoft announced Azure as a PaaS offering in 2009 but entered the IaaS market in June last year when it first made IaaS services available in preview.

Bartoletti also noted the idea of blended categories, offering the examples of Salesforce as both a SaaS and PaaS vendor, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as both an IaaS and PaaS vendor.

Pluses: Google Cloud is hitting a nice combo of scale and improving profitability — ~32% growth with ~20.7% operating margin ...

AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud commanded more than 70% of global IaaS spend in 2024, according to Gartner.

IaaS was a $24 billion market in 2016, whose key players are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform. The Growing Potential of PaaS ...

IaaS and PaaS recorded the highest growth rates for cloud infrastructure services at 44 percent for the first six months of the year, with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google as the market ...

When it comes to public platform as a service (PaaS), AWS is still the market leader, although the three nearest challengers – Salesforce, Microsoft and IBM – hold slightly more share combined this ...

Amazon Web Services maintained a commanding lead over the competition in the public Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service businesses during the third quarter, despite rapid growth from ...

Deployment and Management Services All of the IaaS vendors are putting a major focus on making deployments and operational tasks easier to manage. AWS has recently launched OpsWorks to go along ...