Cloud Computing Statistics for 2026

Cloud adoption and infrastructure spending continue to grow rapidly. Brightlio has compiled current cloud computing facts to help you follow the industry’s most important trends.

In this article, you’ll find more than 100 sourced cloud computing statistics, including:

• Global cloud computing market statistics
• Cloud adoption by country and by region, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East and Africa
• Cloud technology segments, including edge computing, cloud AI, and serverless computing
• Global cloud computing and infrastructure statistics by vendor

Cloud Computing Market Size and Growth

1. Gartner forecasts the worldwide public cloud services market to reach $1.03 trillion in 2026, representing 20.9% year-over-year growth. (Gartner)
2. The global cloud computing market was valued at $753.11 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $5.15 trillion by 2034. (Precedence Research)
3. North America captured over 41% of global revenue in 2024. (Precedence Research)
4. Software-as-a-service accounted for 55% of global cloud revenue in 2024. (Precedence Research)
5. Private cloud deployments represented 47% of cloud revenue in 2024. (Precedence Research)
6. Large enterprises generated 51.7% of cloud computing revenue in 2024. (Precedence Research)
7. The banking, financial services and insurance sector held 26% of cloud revenue in 2024. (Precedence Research)
8. The U.S. cloud computing market was $431.76 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $2.99 trillion by 2034. (Precedence Research)
9. The North American cloud-computing market was valued at $474.46 billion in 2024. (Precedence Research)
10. The global cloud computing market was valued at $943.6 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach $1.19 trillion in 2026. (Grand View Research)

Cloud Computing Usage and Adoption Statistics

1. 88% of organizations use a multi-cloud approach in 2026. (Flexera)
2. 73% of organizations operate hybrid cloud environments in 2026. (Flexera)
3. 63% of SMB workloads run in the public cloud in 2026, up from 55% the previous year. (Flexera)
4. In 2026, 61% of SMB data and 51% of enterprise data are stored in the public cloud. (Flexera)

Global Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Statistics

1. The term “cloud computing” was coined by George Favaloro of Compaq in 1996. (MIT)
2. Worldwide IaaS spending reached $222 billion in 2025 and is forecast to increase to $287 billion in 2026, up 29.3%. (Gartner)
3. Global spending on public cloud services is projected to hit $1.35 trillion by 2027, according to the latest figures from the International Data Corporation. (IDC)
4. Hyperscale cloud data center revenue was $170.6 billion in 2023. (Cushman & Wakefield)
5. The global private cloud market was valued at approximately $222 billion in 2022 and is expected to exceed $500 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual rate near 15% (Grand View Research)

Cloud Computing Cost and Efficiency Stats

1. For 85% of organizations, managing cloud spending is the leading cloud challenge in 2026. (Flexera)
2. Organizations estimate that 29% of their cloud spending is wasted. (Flexera)
3. 63% of organizations have a FinOps team to improve cloud-cost visibility and governance. (Flexera)
4. 71% of organizations operate a Cloud Center of Excellence, often supported by FinOps and software asset management teams. (Flexera)

Cloud Security and Compliance in Cloud Computing

1. 82% of breaches in 2024 involved data stored in the cloud, and 44% of organizations say risk assessment and audit are the biggest cloud compliance challenges. (Bright Defense) For the wider picture, see these data breach statistics.
2. Ransomware attacks on cloud have grown 13% in five years. Phishing drives 51% of credential theft, often through impersonation fraud. (SentinelOne)
3. Cloud attacks have surged, affecting roughly 80% of companies. Data shows that 33% of cases involve cloud data breaches, 27% involve environment intrusions, 23% involve crypto mining, and 15% stem from failed audits. The consequences cut into revenue, with downtime, delays, and degraded performance disrupting business operations. (SentinelOne)
4. Hackers target 38% of SaaS applications and frequently exploit cloud-based email servers. Servers are the focus of 90% of breaches, with web application servers hit the hardest. (SentinelOne)
5. Misconfigured cloud storage on platforms such as AWS S3 and Azure Blob is the most common vulnerability discovered during penetration tests, appearing in 37% of engagements. (Bright Defense)
   

Cloud Technology Segment Statistics

Edge computing, cloud AI, and serverless computing are distinct technology segments that are expanding alongside wider cloud adoption.

1. The global edge computing market was valued at $33.4 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach $46.7 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)
2. The global cloud AI market was valued at $121.7 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach $169.9 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)
3. The global serverless computing market was valued at $24.5 billion in 2024 and is estimated to reach $29.9 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)

Cloud Computing Market Leaders and Segments

1. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $143.4 billion in Q2 2026, up 43% year over year. (Synergy Research Group)
2. In Q2 2026, AWS held 28% of the global cloud infrastructure services market, followed by Microsoft at 20% and Google at 15%. (Synergy Research Group)
3. Together, AWS, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 63% of the Q2 2026 cloud infrastructure services market. (Synergy Research Group)
4. Cloud infrastructure service revenue exceeded $500 billion for the trailing twelve months ending in Q2 2026. (Synergy Research Group)

Cloud Computing Statistics by Region

Cloud markets differ by region because adoption, regulation, infrastructure, and enterprise demand vary. The following sections summarize key regional figures.

Cloud Computing Statistics for North America

1. North America’s public cloud market generated $362.3 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach $401.7 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)
2. North America accounted for 38.7% of the global public cloud market in 2025. (Grand View Research)
3. The North American public cloud market is forecast to grow at a 13.9% CAGR from 2026 to 2033. (Grand View Research)
4. In H1 2024, the U.S. led the global cloud market with 44% of cloud service revenue, 53% of hyperscale data center capacity, and 47% of cloud data center hardware and software sales. (Future CIO)
5. The U.S. cloud computing market is projected to be six times larger than China’s. (Statista)
6. Canadian companies allocated 29% of their IT budgets to cloud computing. (Made in CA)
7. 92% of Canadian companies use some form of cloud computing services. (Made in CA)
8. Infrastructure as a service accounts for half of the US cloud computing market. (Statista)
9. Mexico boasts cloud regions from four of the seven largest public cloud providers (Azure, Google, Huawei, and Oracle). (S&P Global)
10. The United States represented 51% of hyperscale cloud data center revenue in 2023. (Cushman & Wakefield)

Cloud Computing Statistics for South America

1. Brazil is home to cloud regions from all seven major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Huawei, IBM, Oracle, and Tencent). (S&P Global)
2. Chile is home to cloud regions from five major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Huawei, and Oracle). (S&P Global)
3. Mordor Intelligence estimates the broader South American cloud-computing market at $55.21 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach $88.17 billion in 2030, growing at 9.81% per year. (Mordor Intelligence)
4. Public cloud makes up 71.97% of revenue in 2024, while hybrid cloud is expected to grow 11.04% annually from 2025 to 2030. (Mordor Intelligence)
5. SaaS leads the market with 53.19% share in 2024, while PaaS will grow the fastest at 10.35% per year. (Mordor Intelligence)
6. Large enterprises contributed 62.24% of revenue in 2024, but SMEs will grow faster at 10.07% CAGR. (Mordor Intelligence)
7. Banking and insurance accounted for 21.13% of spending in 2024, with retail cloud use expected to grow at 10.46% annually. (Mordor Intelligence)
8. Brazil led the market with 42.39% share in 2024, while Argentina is forecast to grow fastest at 10.71% annually. (Mordor Intelligence)
9. Statista estimates the South American public-cloud services market at $19.28 billion in 2025, with SaaS generating $6.30 billion. (Statista)
10. Revenue is expected to reach $51.58 billion by 2030, expanding at 21.75% CAGR. (Statista)
11. Public cloud revenue will jump 28.97% year over year in 2025. (Statista)
12. Grand View Research estimates that the broader Latin American cloud-computing market generated $54.47 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $184.87 billion by 2030, growing 21.8% annually. (Grand View Research)
13. Latin America represented 7.2% of global cloud revenue in 2024. (Grand View Research)
14. SaaS is the largest segment, but IaaS is expected to grow the fastest between 2025 and 2030. (Grand View Research)
15. Brazil will post the highest growth rate in Latin America from 2025 to 2030. (Grand View Research)
16. Telecom operators are investing heavily: Brisanet has built 61,000 km of fiber with 5G micro-data centers, SBA spent $975 million for 7,000 towers, and V.tal committed $1 billion for low-latency networks. (Mordor Intelligence)
17. 73% of Latin American organizations plan to operationalize AI within 12 months, with workloads that demand 10 to 50 times more compute than traditional apps. (Mordor Intelligence)
18. Microsoft announced a $2.7 billion investment in Brazil to train 5 million people in AI skills. (Mordor Intelligence)

Cloud Computing Statistics for the Middle East and Africa

1. The Middle East and Africa public cloud market generated $78.99 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach $85.72 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)
2. The region represented 8.4% of global public cloud revenue in 2025. (Grand View Research)
3. The Middle East and Africa public cloud market is forecast to grow at an 11.9% CAGR from 2026 to 2033, reaching $188.56 billion in 2033. (Grand View Research)
4. IaaS was the region’s largest and fastest-growing public cloud service segment in 2025. (Grand View Research)

The following historical adoption figures come from McKinsey’s 2022–2023 CloudSights survey of organizations in Africa:

5. African organizations in the survey hosted roughly 45% of their workloads in public cloud, and cloud accounted for 38% of total IT expenditure. (McKinsey & Company)
6. Only 17% of African companies in the sample had fully migrated their workloads to cloud environments. (McKinsey & Company)
7. About 26% of surveyed firms were still in an experimental phase, keeping less than half of their workloads in cloud. (McKinsey & Company)
8. Within the surveyed group, compute services represented 29% and storage 32% of cloud usage. (McKinsey & Company)
9. Cloud adoption rates across East, West, and Southern Africa range between 70% and 77%, with Southern Africa reporting 50% of workloads on public cloud. (McKinsey & Company)
10. Technology, media and telecom organizations exhibited 83% average cloud adoption, with 61% of workloads hosted in public cloud. (McKinsey & Company)
11. Financial services firms reported 56% of workloads in cloud, comprising 39% in public cloud and 17% in private cloud. (McKinsey & Company)
12. Half of surveyed African organizations used a single cloud service provider, compared with 87% of surveyed North American companies. (McKinsey & Company)
13. Legal and regulatory barriers were cited as significant obstacles by more than 50% of organizations; only 10% said that existing policy frameworks support cloud adoption. (McKinsey & Company)

Cloud Computing Statistics for Europe

1. IaaS was the largest revenue-generating public cloud service segment in Europe in 2025. (Grand View Research)
2. Europe’s public cloud market generated $229.5 billion in revenue in 2025 and is estimated to reach $255.1 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)
3. Europe’s public cloud market is forecast to grow at a 14.3% CAGR from 2026 to 2033. (Grand View Research)
4. European cloud providers held 15% of local market share in 2022, down from 29% in 2017, but that share has since stabilized at around 15%. (SRG Research)
5. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google control about 70% of the European market, while SAP and Deutsche Telekom each hold about 2%. (SRG Research)

6. 52.7% of EU enterprises used paid cloud computing services in 2025, up 7.4 percentage points from 2023. (Eurostat)
7. In 2025, 45.5% of EU enterprises used paid cloud services to host their databases. (Eurostat)
8. The most common paid cloud services in the EU in 2025 were e-mail (85.2%), office software (71.7%), file storage (71.5%), and security software (65.5%). (Eurostat)
9. In 2025, EU enterprises used paid cloud services for finance or accounting software (58.2%), ERP software (30.1%), CRM software (27.9%), and application development, testing, or deployment platforms (26.1%). (Eurostat)
10. In 2025, paid cloud adoption was highest in Finland at 79.2%, followed by Italy at 75.6% and Malta at 74.9%. (Eurostat)
11. Generative AI services in Europe’s cloud market are growing at 140–160%, with the UK and Germany as the largest markets, and Ireland, Spain, and Italy seeing the fastest growth. (SRG Research)

Cloud Computing Statistics for Asia-Pacific

1. The Asia-Pacific public cloud market generated $196.6 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach $224.7 billion in 2026. (Grand View Research)
2. IaaS was the largest revenue-generating public cloud service segment in Asia-Pacific in 2025. (Grand View Research)
3. The Asia-Pacific public cloud market is forecast to grow at a 17.1% CAGR from 2026 to 2033. (Grand View Research)
4. Telecom firms in Asia-Pacific are investing about $200 million annually into cloud transformation, with one-third going to infrastructure. (Grand View Research)
5. AWS announced $6 billion in investments for data centers in Malaysia, alongside combined $6 billion commitments from Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM, Tencent, Google, and Oracle. Microsoft alone pledged $1 billion over five years. (Grand View Research)
6. China, Japan, and India are identified as the leading markets due to strong investments and regulatory frameworks. (Ken Research)
7. Indonesia expanded its cloud-based Clean Air Initiative to 100 cities in 2024 for real-time pollution monitoring. (Ken Research)
8. India’s 2024 budget allocated $2.6 billion to its Ministry of Electronics and IT for digital infrastructure. (Ken Research)
9. Singapore is home to more than 100 hyperscale data centers, supporting its role as a regional hub. (Ken Research)
10. Around 150 million people in rural Southeast Asia still lack high-speed internet, limiting cloud adoption. (Ken Research)
11. South Korea and Japan are expected to be early adopters of edge computing by 2029. (Ken Research)
12. ADBI estimates cloud contributed 0.25%–2.23% of GDP across Asia-Pacific countries in 2023. Singapore was near the top with 2.23%, while India and several Southeast Asian countries were closer to 0.25%–0.50%. (ADBI)
13. Improved pro-cloud policies could raise GDP by 0.5%–0.7% in coming years.(ADBI)
14. A one-step policy improvement raises maturity by 12%–33% and can boost spending by 10.5%–28%. (ADBI)
15. With supportive policies, GDP could rise by 0.6% in Vietnam, 0.5% in Korea and the Philippines, and 0.3% in Indonesia and Thailand. (ADBI)
16. Singapore has nearly 100% cloud adoption, while New Zealand is at 91%. (ADBI)
17. Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore each spend 0.4% of GDP or more on cloud, while others remain below 0.3%. (ADBI)

Is Cloud Computing in Demand?

Yes. Gartner expects worldwide public cloud services to reach $1.03 trillion in 2026. Flexera found that 88% of surveyed organizations use multi-cloud environments, while Synergy Research Group reported 43% year-over-year growth in cloud infrastructure service revenue in Q2 2026.

What Are the Four Types of Cloud Computing?

The four main deployment models of cloud computing are:

Model	Key features	Source
Public cloud	Services run on shared infrastructure managed by third-party providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Organizations share resources and pay based on usage.	Supermicro
Private cloud	Infrastructure is dedicated to one organization and may be hosted on-premises or by a third party. It provides greater control, security, and compliance.	Supermicro
Hybrid cloud	Combines public and private environments so workloads and data can move between them based on security, performance, and cost requirements.	Supermicro
Multi-cloud	Uses services from multiple public cloud providers to reduce vendor dependence and optimize resilience, cost, or performance.	Supermicro

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