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title: Competitive Market Energizes Cloud Providers to Extend Their Services
description: The February 2022 survey of approximately 1,200 IT professionals and decision-makers also reveals that there are no clear winners in the battle for market share among the hyperscale public cloud providers, although Microsoft Azure, at 37.3%, does have a slight advantage. But Amazon AWS (32.1%) and Google Cloud Platform (29.7%) also hold a prominent share of the public cloud market.
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# [Competitive Market Energizes Cloud Providers to Extend Their Services](https://blog.nextpathway.com/cloud-providers-increasing-demand-vmblog)

 Written by [Next Pathway](https://blog.nextpathway.com/author/admin) | 4/22/22 7:41 PM

Next Pathway's latest survey of 1,200 IT professionals and decision-makers reveals that there are no clear winners in the battle for market share among the hyperscale public cloud providers. Microsoft Azure has a slight advantage with (37.3%) of market share, compared to Amazon AWS (32.1%) and Google Cloud Platform (29.7%).

[*The State of Enterprise Cloud Migrations survey*](https://www.nextpathway.com/cloud-migrations-survey-2022) underscores the heightened sense of urgency by businesses to move their workloads to the cloud to realize new revenue streams through digital transformation: 78.3% of IT leaders report an increase in demand for moving workloads to the cloud. However, just one-third (33.6%) of respondents have completed a workload migration, which is only slightly more than the finding from [Next ](https://blog.nextpathway.com/competitive-advantage-and-better-customer-experience-drives-cloud-migration-push-next-pathway-research-reveals)[Pathway's](https://blog.nextpathway.com/competitive-advantage-and-better-customer-experience-drives-cloud-migration-push-next-pathway-research-reveals)[ July 2021 survey](https://blog.nextpathway.com/competitive-advantage-and-better-customer-experience-drives-cloud-migration-push-next-pathway-research-reveals), when 31% had completed the process. We are still in the early days of the move to the cloud.

You can read the full article here:  [Highly Competitive Market Energizes Cloud Providers to Extend Their Services, Products and Tactics to Win the Cloud Wars](https://vmblog.com/archive/2022/04/20/highly-competitive-market-energizes-cloud-providers-to-extend-their-services-products-and-tactics-to-win-the-cloud-wars.aspx#.YmLuEdpKiUm)

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