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Microsoft Gaining Ground in Cloud Segment Long Dominated by AWS

By
Kevin McLaughlin
· · Source: The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft in 2017 gained significant ground on Amazon Web Services in the market for cloud services like servers and storage, according to new market share figures from Gartner featured in this report from The Wall Street Journal . Microsoft’s share of the cloud infrastructure market grew from 8.7% to 13.3% from 2016 to 2017, while Amazon’s market share dropped from 53.7% to 51.8% during the...

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