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Cloud spending said to top $30B in Q4 as Amazon, Microsoft battle for market share

Cloud spending said to top $30B in Q4 as Amazon, Microsoft battle for market share

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/cloud-spending-said-to-top-30b-in-q4-as-amazon-microsoft-battle-for-market-share/

We all know the cloud infrastructure market is extremely lucrative; analyst firm Canalys reports that the sector reached $30.2 billion in revenue for Q4 2019.

Cloud numbers are hard to parse because companies often lump cloud revenue into a single bucket regardless of whether it’s generated by infrastructure or software. What’s interesting about Canalys’s numbers is that it attempts to measure the pure infrastructure results themselves without other cloud incomes mixed in: