Market leaders of services for deploying and maintaining the cloud infrastructure retain or increase their share, according to the data of the analytical company Synergy Research Group.

According to researchers, in the second quarter of 2017, the global market for infrastructure cloud services reached almost $ 11 billion, an increase of 40% compared to the same period in 2016.

AWS, Microsoft and Google are leaders in the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service). Alibaba ranked fourth in IaaS revenue due to rapid business growth in the Chinese market and active international expansion.

At the same time, IBM has no equal in revenue from managed private clouds. Here Rackspace and some suppliers of traditional IT services take a stronger position than in the public cloud market.

The largest segment is public IaaS-solutions, and the highest growth rates are demonstrated by public clouds PaaS. The services developed in the framework of PaaS in the field of databases, the "Internet of things" and analysts are growing by more than 100% per year.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts for about a third of the market for cloud infrastructure deployments. At the same time AWS is growing faster than the market.

The shares of Microsoft, IBM and Google are 11%, 8% and 5% respectively. Alibaba and Oracle demonstrate the highest revenue growth rates. Leaders strengthen positions or hold them unchanged in the market, while smaller companies lose shares, the study says.

"The growing dominance of hyper-scalable players remains, the four leading companies have an occasion for the holiday," said John Dinsdale, chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group..

"While Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform have twice the size of the larger business than IBM, this company continues to dominate the managed private cloud segment, while AWS still outperforms the nearest pursuer. Some indicators are really impressive. The annual growth rate slightly declines relative to our expectations in such a large market, but they remain at a level of more than 40%, and AWS alone added to the growth of $ 1.2 billion in revenue over the last four quarters ".