According to an HG Insights report published this year, AWS has a market share of 30% of the global cloud infrastructure market with a customer base of more than four million, which explains why today’s outage has had such a significant global impact.
The virtual environment, according to the company, is “the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud.”
Coverage by Charlotte Reck at CNN.com
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While other cloud providers exist, they lack the scale and reach of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. These three power the majority of the world’s cloud services, around 60% of the market, Roy Illsley, chief analyst at Omdia, told CNN. But among those three, AWS is the largest with roughly 37% of the market, according to research firm Gartner. AWS has a customer base of 4 million, according to an HG Insights report published this year.
Coverage by Alicia Wallace, Lisa Eadicicco and Ramishah Maruf at CNN.com



