Many large participants of the cloud technology market reported for the second quarter, and experts began to analyze the income of companies. In Synergy Research Group reported that the market continues to grow rapidly, and Amazon - to strengthen the leading position, despite increased competition.

According to analysts, in the third quarter of 2017, the market for cloud infrastructure services (including IaaS, PaaS, and managed private clouds) reached $ 12 billion, an increase of more than 40% over the same period last year.

It is noted that growth is observed in all regions. And the alignment of forces among the leading suppliers is similar to almost the whole world, except China.

Amazon not only remains the leader of the cloud infrastructure market, but also increases the share, although the company's revenue does not grow as much as some competitors - for example, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba. At the same time, cloud business Amazon (a division of Amazon Web Services / AWS) more than the five closest pursuers combined.

"While we forecast a 40 percent increase in the entire market in 2017, it's a little shocking how the AWS division consistently increases revenues by more than 40 percent," said John Dinsdale, senior analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group,. "Microsoft and Google also deserve praise for the growth they have achieved, and IBM is increasing market share through a managed private cloud segment in which the company holds a strong position".

IBM is one of the three largest providers of services for the cloud infrastructure. Oracle demonstrates growth, although the company has a small client base, while Salesforce and Rackspace retain strong positions in niche market segments.

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

According to Canalys analysts, in July-September 2017, the global cloud infrastructure market volume was $ 14.4 billion, which is 43% more than a year ago. The largest providers of such services - Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM - received 57% of this revenue.