Cloud Infrastructure Revenue Grew 38% in 2019, Edge Impact Comes Next

AWS remains the biggest provider of cloud infrastructure services with $34.6 billion revenue. Microsoft generated  $18.1 billion, according to Canalys.

Global cloud infrastructure services spending grew 37.6 per cent to US $107.1 billion in 2019.

Google grew revenue the fastest, at 87.8 percent in 2019, albeit from a relatively low base, to $6.2 billion. 

Microsoft grew 64 percent to $18.1 billion, while Alibaba grew 64 percent as well,to $5.2 billion. AWS grew 36 percent to $34.6 billion. 

The “law of a few” or “winner take all” trend also seems to hold in the cloud infrastructure market. 

All four cloud kings  made their gains at the expense of "others", which lost collective market share of nearly five percent.

source: Canalys

In terms of edge computing, AWS seems to be moving most aggressively at the moment, launching three different edge computing services.  AWS Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services within telecommunications provider data centers at the edge of the 5G networks.

AWS Local Zone extends edge computing service by placing  AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. 

AWS Local Zones are designed to run workloads that require single-digit millisecond latency, such as video rendering and graphics intensive, virtual desktop applications. Local Zones are intended for customers that do not want to operate their own on-premises or local data center.

Likewise, AWS Outposts puts AWS servers directly into an enterprise data center, creating yet another way AWS becomes a supplier of edge computing services. “AWS Outposts is designed for workloads that need to remain on-premises due to latency requirements, where customers want that workload to run seamlessly with the rest of their other workloads in AWS,” AWS says.  

AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’s broad array of services in the cloud.