Cloud services have certainly grown in the last several years. However, three leading platforms stand out amongst the crowd. There is a fierce three-way race between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These have become the top cloud companies and have a commanding lead in the market for infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).

This Gartner magic quadrant shows the dominant position of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. However, you should expect this graph to change significantly over the years as Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud will innovate to keep up with the competition and evolve.