Alibaba Cloud's market share reached 9.5%, ranking third in the world and first in Asia-Pacific, surpassing Google Cloud Platform's 6.1%, according to data recently released by research firm Gartner.
In 2020, the global IaaS (infrastructure as a service) market reached $64.286 billion, up 40.7% year-on-year, with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba Cloud ranking in the top three globally.
From 2016 to 2020, Alibaba Cloud's share rose from 3.7% in 2016 to 9.5% in 2020, up for the fifth consecutive year; AWS's market share fell from 53.7% in 2016 to 40.8% in 2020.
AWS, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba Cloud are the top three globally in key industries such as finance, public services, retail and education.
Benefiting from the growth of China's online education market, Alibaba Cloud ranked first globally in the education industry, surpassing AWS and Microsoft Azure with a 24.3% market share, the data shows.
In the retail sector, Alibaba Cloud share is essentially the same as Microsoft Azure.
Gartner expects the global PaaS (platform as a service) market to grow to more than double its current size by 2024.
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