Profits Remain Elusive as Cloud Providers Target Revenue Growth over Profitability

INCLINE VILLAGE, NV, Feb. 22, 2021 - According to a new report published by 650 Group, titled: IaaS Hyperscaler SWOT Report 2020-2025, IaaS revenue grew to over $100 B in 2020 and $50 B in Capital Expenditures for data center equipment (servers, storage, networking) and other compute and IT equipment.  Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google GCP made up over 60% of the revenue with Alibaba being the largest non-US provider.

AWS brought in $86,000 per minute in revenue and made $26,000 per minute in profit dollars.  While GCP, in third place, brought in $3,300 per minute in revenue while losing $1,400 per minute in 2020.  Additionally, 2020 saw Alibaba record its first profitable quarter.

"While revenue continues to surge for IaaS as many businesses rely on it as a foundational building block for their data, profit dollars remain challenging as companies look to grow and expand instead of relying solely of profit to make investment decisions," said Alan Weckel, Founding Technology Analyst at 650 Group.

Continued Weckel: "2021 is shaping up as an important battle of US IaaS hyperscalers as they invest to their strengths to continuing expanding.  The battle for Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) with IaaS providers is presently in its infancy with many suppliers vying for position for the underlying technology."

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Companies covered in the report include hyperscale cloud providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google GCP in addition to IaaS comparisons with IBM, Oracle, and Alibaba. The report also discusses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the US Top-3 IaaS hyperscalers.

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— Cloud market revenue expected to exceed $700B in 2022 as 650 Group First To Provide Comprehensive Analysis of Cloud Infrastructure + Services

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif.  August 20, 2018 —  According to a newly released report issued by founding analysts of 650 Group, Cloud market revenue grew 36% Y/Y in 1Q18 to make for an $84B market. IaaS experienced the strong growth with 53% Y/Y growth. 2Q18 results are indicating significant sequential growth. 

Found in its first Cloud Report, 650 Group covers Colocation, IaaS, SaaS, and Search & Social.

1Q18 Highlights:

• Capital Equipment Expenditures (CAPEX) grew 62% Y/Y to $30 B, including total company CAPEX, Cloud CAPEX, and DC Equipment CAPEX separately. Spending was led by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft
• Search and Social revenue grew 31% Y/Y while CAPEX grew 128%
• SaaS revenue grew 41% Y/Y while CAPEX grew 16% Y/Y . The top four SaaS vendors are Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP.

The 650 Group Cloud Report includes CAPEX studies for the Colocation, IaaS, SaaS, and Search and Social Media markets including unique look at spending specifically for data center equipment. Going beyond just Cloud revenue provides a unique look into where and how the largest Cloud providers deploy equipment.  In the report, you can see the trend towards more CAPEX spending occurring in IaaS as many SaaS providers choose IaaS instead of building out their own infrastructure.

“The biggest Tech players define the cloud market, and considering its already robust size ($52B by just four companies), coupled with rapidly increasing adoption, it will continue to grow at a blistering pace up to 2022,” said Alan Weckel, founding analyst for 650 Group.  “The emphasis is on helping consumers, governments and businesses access resources, communications and entertainment, in addition to critical services, ranging from finance/insurance and retail, to manufacturing and healthcare. With CAPEX reaching 62% growth stemming from the largest providers, the cloud market represents a strong growth opportunity for network, storage, component, and optical vendors supplying data center compute and connectivity.”

About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.  650 Group focuses on leading edge market trends and research and prides itself on first to market research.