From InfoWorld: Despite Microsoft's strong growth in the cloud market, Amazon reached a five-year high in its share of the cloud infrastructure service market.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had 25 percent revenue growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, giving it a 30 percent global market share in the last quarter of 2014, according to a report from Synergy Research Group. AWS's year-over-year revenue growth was 51 percent.
Amazon was able to grab that marketshare despite a strong third-quarter push from cloud rival Microsoft , which showed the highest year-over-year revenue growth -- 96 percent -- last quarter. Microsoft is in second place in the market with about 11 percent share.
With strong 81 percent year-over-year revenue growth, Google advanced but was unable to grab the third-place spot from IBM which has about 7 percent of the market, compared to Google's 5 percent, noted Synergy Research.
"Many actual or perceived barriers to cloud adoption have now been removed and the worldwide market is on a strong growth trajectory," said John Dinsdale, Synergy's chief analyst and research director, in a statement. "The momentum that has been built up at AWS and Microsoft is particularly impressive. They have an ever-broadening portfolio of services and they are also benefitting from a slowdown in the super-aggressive price competition that was a feature of the first half of 2014."
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