⚡ Cloud Services in Japan

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.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, cloud services are detected on 17.8% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Amazon Web Services, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 76% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud with 12.1% and Akamai Connected Cloud with 6.9%.

Amazon Web Services 76%
Google Cloud 12.1%
Akamai Connected Cloud 6.9%
Google App Engine 4.5%
Firebase 4%
Microsoft Azure 3.6%
Oracle Cloud 3.5%
IBM Cloud 1.1%
Vercel 1.1%
Kinsta 0.6%
Netlify 0.6%
Alibaba Cloud 0.4%
DigitalOcean 0.3%
Supabase 0.05%
OVHcloud 0.02%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Google App Engine ^(-7)
5. Firebase ^(-4)
8. IBM Cloud ^(-8)
10. Kinsta ^(-2)
11. Netlify ^(-2)
14. Supabase ^(-6)
18. Huawei Cloud ^(-1)
19. Cloud Foundry ^(-7)
20. Baidu AI Cloud ^(-1)
21. Acquia Cloud ^(-4)

✨ Best Cloud Services

Below is a more detailed list of 21 cloud services used on sites from Japan, 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	76%
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	12.1%
3	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	6.9%
4	Google App Engine A cloud-based platform-as-a-service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Free tier	4.5%
5	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	4%
6	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	3.6%
7	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.	3.5%
8	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	1.1%
9	Vercel San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform for deploying and hosting websites, applications, and serverless functions. Free$20+/user/month	1.1%
10	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	0.6%
11	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	0.6%
12	Alibaba Cloud Hangzhou, China A Chinese cloud computing platform owned by Alibaba Group. Free tier	0.4%
13	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	0.3%
14	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.05%
15	OVHcloud Roubaix, France A French cloud infrastructure provider offering public and private cloud, dedicated servers, and web hosting services.	0.02%
16	Scaleway Paris, France A French cloud computing and hosting provider that stores all its data in Europe.	0.02%
17	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.	0.02%
18	Huawei Cloud Shenzhen, China A cloud computing platform offered by Huawei that offers a range of services and solutions for various industries and scenarios.	0.01%
19	Cloud Foundry San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, multi-cloud application platform, delivered as-a-Service. FreeOpen source	0.01%
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.	0.004%
21	Acquia Cloud Boston, Massachusetts, United States A Drupal-optimized hosting platform by Acquia. $141+/month	0.004%

👉 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 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 35 cloud services across the web.
Of these, 21 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.