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Alibaba Cloud Ranks Third in Global Cloud Computing Market in 2021

Apr 28, 2022, 21:56pm2022/04/28 21:56:56 Pandaily

IDC, an industry research institution, released its global cloud computing tracking data for 2021 on Wednesday, showing that the scale of global cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market grew to $91.35 billion, up 35.64% compared with last year.

The top five cloud computing enterprises in 2021 were Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud, Google Cloud and IBM, which is consistent with those of 2020. In 2021, Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud’s market share took up 7.4% of the entire market, making it the only Chinese manufacturer to enter the top three.

Huawei Cloud, Tencent<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud, China Telecom, Baidu<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud and OVHcloud ranked sixth to tenth respectively, four of them hail from China.

In addition to ranking third in the global market, Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud has long ranked first in the Asia-pacific cloud computing market. At present, Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud has established 26 regional nodes and 82 regions around the world, covering more than 200 countries and regions.

In the technical field, Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud owns Feitian, an in-house cloud operating system, along with its core technical capabilities such as computing, storage, network and security. The company has have achieved global leadership in professional evaluations.

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Another report released in April by Garner, another industry research institution, showed that the global IaaS market size was $90.89 billion, which was close to IDC’s statistics. According to Gartner, the top three around the world include Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud, with Alibaba<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud achieving a market share of 9.55%. Huawei Cloud and Tencent<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> Cloud ranked fifth and sixth respectively.

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