No. 2: Microsoft Azure

Q2 2022 Market Share: 21 Percent

Q2 2021 Market Share: 19 Percent

Q2 2020 Market Share: 17 Percent

The longtime No. 2 cloud computing giant is increasing its global market share year after year as it continues to nip at the heels of AWS.

Led by its public cloud Azure business, Microsoft won second place in the global cloud infrastructure services market by winning 21 percent share in the second quarter.

The Redmond, Wash.-based worldwide software leader has grown its market share from approximately 14 percent share in second quarter 2018 to now 21 percent share.

For its recent second fiscal quarter, Microsoft reported total cloud sales of $25 billion, up 28 percent year over year, although it does not disclose specific Azure revenue dollars.