AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud data on public cloud costs, monthly spending, VMs, discount programs and cloud adoption rates, according to Flexera’s new 2023 report.

But, Microsoft Azure and Google (GCP) are not far behind, and in recent years they have commanded innovation and market pricing reductions, thus closing gaps to bring them closer to AWS.

Amazon’s AWS reported net sales of $22.14 billion, indicating a 12.16% YoY increase from $19.74 billion and a 3.7% rise from the previous quarter’s $21.35 billion.

Microsoft Azure vs. AWS vs. Google Cloud Cloud computing has become increasingly important to enterprise companies due to the massive wave of demand in generative AI, especially since the debut of ...

While AWS and Azure have broader service offerings and a larger customer base, Google Cloud is carving a niche in AI-first solutions and open-source technologies, aiming to differentiate itself as ...

Meanwhile, the impact on AWS is meaningful. While you see on the lower left, we had AWS dropping to 50% in 2022 and below 50% in 2023, the revised estimates indicate that AWS had a 55% share in 2022.

And this can make it prohibitively expensive to leave. Similar to rivals, including AWS, Microsoft did already allow customers to transfer 100GB of data out of Azure each month for free.