Bumper growth for Amazon competitors no threat to AWS dominance

Competitors from Amazon Web Services narrow the gap in the giant cloud infrastructure service provider, recording significantly higher growth in the last quarter, but this does not prevent AWS as the market reached nearly $ 10 billion - with a Growth of 40%.

The new Synergy Research Group figures show that Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle Alibaba and all have a "significantly higher" Q1 growth rate than AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba with growth of 80% or more .

However, despite the strong growth of its competitors, Synergy Research claims that AWS remains "in a clean league" with "comfortably large" revenue that every five competitors put together.

John Dinsdale, Synergy Research Group, says the first part of the cloud vendor market now shows a clear stratification with AWS, a group of fastest growing hunters and some other niche players run on Salesforce and Rackspace.

While Salesforce and Rackspace have lower growth rates than other companies, Synergy said both maintain a strong position in their niche markets.

"Beyond these leading companies, the cloud market has a long tail of small and medium-sized suppliers or businesses that have only a minor position in the market, usually based on a specific country or area of application Specific, "Dinsdale said.

"There are decent growth opportunities for some of these smaller players, but it is unlikely to have a big impact in terms of global market share in the world," he added.

Synergy Research estimates the quarterly revenue of cloud infrastructure services, which include infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service cloud services and hosted, came "nearly" 10 billion US dollars and Continue to grow at more than 40% per year.

AWS, Microsoft and Google are the leaders in the IaaS / PaaS space, while IBM continues to lead a private cloud offered.

Synergy says the private cloud offered is where Rackspace and some traditional service providers offer more features than the public cloud.