⚡ Cloud Services in Germany

Cloud service providers deliver internet-based computing resources that allow organizations and developers to deploy, run, and manage websites and applications without maintaining physical infrastructure.

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

According to our statistics, cloud services are detected on 10.1% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 228K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 60.1% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud with 16.9% and Microsoft Azure with 8.5%.

Amazon Web Services 60.1%
Google Cloud 16.9%
Microsoft Azure 8.5%
DigitalOcean 8%
Akamai Connected Cloud 7%
Vercel 2.1%
Google App Engine 2.1%
Firebase 1.9%
Netlify 1.4%
Gridscale 1%
Kinsta 0.9%
Oracle Cloud 0.9%
OVHcloud 0.8%
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 ^(-2)
7. Google App Engine ^(-4)
8. Firebase ^(-1)
9. Netlify ^(-4)
10. Gridscale ^(-17)
11. Kinsta ^(-1)
15. IBM Cloud ^(-1)
17. Exoscale ^(-7)

✨ 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	60.1%
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	16.9%
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	8.5%
4	DigitalOcean New York, United States A cloud computing service provider that offers developers and businesses scalable infrastructure and platform solutions such as virtual machines, managed databases, object and block storage, and container orchestration. $4+/month	8%
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%
6	Vercel San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform for deploying and hosting websites, applications, and serverless functions. Free$20+/user/month	2.1%
7	Google App Engine A cloud-based platform-as-a-service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Free tier	2.1%
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	1.9%
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	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.	0.9%
13	OVHcloud Roubaix, France A French cloud infrastructure provider offering public and private cloud, dedicated servers, and web hosting services.	0.8%
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.	0.3%
17	Exoscale Lausanne, Switzerland A European cloud computing platform that offers GDPR-compliant cloud services including virtual machines, Amazon S3-compatible object storage, managed Kubernetes, and databases.	0.2%
18	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.1%
19	Cloud Foundry San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, multi-cloud application platform, delivered as-a-Service. FreeOpen source	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.	0.06%
21	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%
22	Acquia Cloud Boston, Massachusetts, United States A Drupal-optimized hosting platform by Acquia. $141+/month	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.	0.009%

👉 See Also

🌎 Cloud Services in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 228,724 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 35 cloud services across the web.
Of these, 27 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.