⚡ Cloud Services in Germany

Cloud service providers deliver Internet-based computing resources, including storage, servers, networking, and application hosting, that enable users to run scalable and reliable websites and applications.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our statistics, cloud services are detected on 9.5% of websites from Germany.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top cloud services in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Amazon Web Services, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 59.8% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud with 17.1% and Microsoft Azure with 8.6%.

Amazon Web Services 59.8%
Google Cloud 17.1%
Microsoft Azure 8.6%
DigitalOcean 7.6%
Akamai Connected Cloud 7.5%
Vercel 2.2%
Google App Engine 2%
Firebase 1.7%
Netlify 1.4%
Gridscale 1%
Kinsta 0.9%
OVHcloud 0.8%
Oracle Cloud 0.7%
Alibaba Cloud 0.5%
IBM Cloud 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Microsoft Azure ^(-1)
4. DigitalOcean ^(-1)
6. Vercel ^(-1)
7. Google App Engine ^(-3)
9. Netlify ^(-3)
10. Gridscale ^(-17)
15. IBM Cloud ^(-1)
17. Exoscale ^(-7)
18. Cloud Foundry ^(-7)
19. Supabase ^(-2)

✨ Best Cloud Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 cloud services used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Amazon Web Services Seattle, Washington, United States A comprehensive, cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that delivers on-demand IT resources and services over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Free tier	59.8%
2	Google Cloud Mountain View, California, United States A suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that runs on the same global infrastructure used to power its own products. Free tier	17.1%
3	Microsoft Azure Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud computing platform that provides a broad range of on-demand services for building, deploying, and managing applications, infrastructure, and data across global Microsoft data centers. Free tier	8.6%
4	DigitalOcean New York, United States A cloud computing service that offers a range of cloud computing solutions, including virtual machines, object storage, managed databases, managed Kubernetes, and more. $4+/month	7.6%
5	Akamai Connected Cloud Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A distributed cloud and edge platform that delivers compute, security, and content delivery services using Akamai's globally distributed network. $5+/month	7.5%
6	Vercel San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform for deploying and hosting websites, applications, and serverless functions. Free$20+/user/month	2.2%
7	Google App Engine A cloud-based platform-as-a-service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Free tier	2%
8	Firebase Mountain View, California, United States A backend-as-a-service platform owned by Google that provides cloud services for web and mobile apps. Free tier	1.7%
9	Netlify San Francisco, California, United States A composable web development platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and host websites and applications. Free$9+/month	1.4%
10	Gridscale Cologne, Germany A German cloud computing platform that offers virtual servers, managed databases, Kubernetes, and other cloud solutions, and is currently owned by OVHcloud.	1%
11	Kinsta West Hollywood, California, United States A managed WordPress hosting platform built on Google Cloud that provides all-in-one solutions for running and managing WordPress websites. $35+/month	0.9%
12	OVHcloud Roubaix, France A French cloud infrastructure provider offering public and private cloud, dedicated servers, and web hosting services.	0.8%
13	Oracle Cloud Austin, Texas, United States A comprehensive platform that delivers more than 150 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, including compute, storage, containers and functions, databases, analytics, BI, data lake, AI and machine learning.	0.7%
14	Alibaba Cloud Hangzhou, China A Chinese cloud computing platform owned by Alibaba Group. Free tier	0.5%
15	IBM Cloud Armonk, New York, United States A suite of cloud computing services offered by IBM that provides infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service solutions, including virtual servers, AI tools, data analytics and security features designed to support enterprise workloads and hybrid cloud environments. Free tier	0.5%
16	Scaleway Paris, France A French cloud computing and hosting provider that stores all its data in Europe.	0.2%
17	Exoscale Lausanne, Switzerland A European cloud computing platform that offers GDPR-compliant cloud services including virtual machines, S3-compatible object storage, managed Kubernetes, and databases.	0.2%
18	Cloud Foundry San Francisco, California, United States An open source, multi-cloud application platform, delivered as-a-Service. FreeOpen source	0.1%
19	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.1%
20	Baidu AI Cloud Beijing, China A cloud computing service provided by Baidu, offering cloud servers, object storage, CDN, container management, big data and other cloud services.	0.02%
21	Acquia Cloud Boston, Massachusetts, United States A Drupal-optimized hosting platform by Acquia. $141+/month	0.02%
22	Yandex Cloud Moscow, Russia A public cloud platform from Russian Internet company Yandex that offers scalable computing, secure storage for unlimited amounts of data, and machine learning tools.	0.02%
23	Cyso Cloud Alkmaar, Netherlands A Dutch cloud platform offering fully European-based infrastructure designed for high performance and GDPR compliance.	0.02%
24	Tencent Cloud Shenzhen, China A Chinese cloud provider that operates 58 availability zones across 21 geographic regions, offering cloud computing, AI, and big data services.	0.01%
25	Selectel Saint Petersburg, Russia A fully user-managed private cloud hosted in Selectel data centers.	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Cloud Services in other countries
- Spain
- France
- Italy

Data is based on the analysis of 210,671 websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on February 3, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.