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The competition for leadership in public cloud computing is a fierce three-way race: Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs. Microsoft Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Clearly these three top cloud companies hold a commanding lead in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) markets.

AWS is particularly dominant. According to a 2020 report from Synergy Research Group, "Amazon growth continued to closely mirror overall market growth so it maintained its 32% share of the worldwide [cloud] market. Second ranked Microsoft again grew faster than the market and its market share has increased by almost three percentage points in the last four quarters, reaching 18%."

GCP specializes in high compute offerings like Big Data, analytics and machine learning. It also offers considerable scale and load balancing. Annual revenue landed with 6.7 million this year.

The growth of Alibaba’s cloud business outpaced Amazon and Microsoft in the quarter ending in September, and the Chinese tech giant reiterated its commitment to making the unit profitable by next March. That was faster than Amazon Web Service’s 29% year-on-year revenue rise and Microsoft Azure’s 48% growth in the September quarter.

The strong performance of IBM cloud business, led by Red Hat, underscores the growing client adoption of our open hybrid cloud platform," said Arvind Krishna, IBM chief executive officer. IBM Cloud revenue is up 9 percent in 2020.

In conclusion, many experts believe that the majority of enterprises will invest heavily in multicloud. Indeed, pursuing a multicloud strategy maybe help lessen vendor lock-in or match workloads with the best available service.