Cloud Presence

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has become a highly competitive market for cloud platform providers due to its significant contribution to the global GDP and increasing adoption of cloud-based services by businesses and consumers, at about 90% of businesses in ANZ, China and India having more than 40% of their applications in the public cloud. While migrating applications to the cloud is still aggressively underway, writing cloud native applications is now the new normal. APAC has the largest share of the world's cloud data centers (37%) with most global cloud providers having presence in the key markets of China, India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Australia. Many are expanding their onshore capacity in emerging markets such as Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to meet the growing demand for cloud services in the region. In addition to established providers from North America and Europe, cloud providers from China are also competing for market share in the region, leveraging their local expertise and knowledge of the Chinese market.

Here is an overview of the APJ presence of the top cloud service providers globally in 2023:
Amazon Web Services (AWS): AWS is the largest cloud service provider globally and has a strong presence in the Asia Pacific region, with availability zones in Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, and Australia. Additionally, AWS is planning to expand its availability zones to Thailand and Malaysia soon.

Microsoft Azure: Microsoft Azure is the second-largest cloud service provider globally and has a strong presence in the Asia Pacific region, with availability zones in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, China, India, and Japan. Azure is also planning to expand its availability zones to Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Taiwan soon.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP): GCP is the third-largest cloud service provider globally and has a presence in the Asia Pacific region, with availability zones in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, India, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia. However, GCP doesn't have a presence in Mainland China.

Alibaba Cloud: Alibaba Cloud is the largest cloud service provider in China and the fourth largest globally. It has a strong presence in the Asia Pacific region with availability zones in China, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia.

Oracle Cloud: Oracle Cloud has a presence in the Asia Pacific region, with availability zones in Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, and Singapore.

IBM Cloud (Kyndryl): IBM Cloud (Kyndryl) has a presence in the Asia Pacific region, with availability zones in India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Tencent Cloud: Tencent Cloud is the second-largest cloud service provider in China and has a presence in the Asia Pacific region with availability zones in China, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia.

According to Dgtl Infra, a digital infrastructure advisory services company, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are the top three cloud service providers with the largest market share, accounting for over 65% of spending on cloud infrastructure services. AWS holds the largest market share at 34%, followed by Microsoft Azure with 22%, and Google Cloud with 9.5%. The remaining market share is divided among other cloud service providers, with Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud (Kyndryl), and Tencent Cloud being the next top providers.