⚡ Cloud Service Providers 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 service providers are detected on 25.6% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 208K+ 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 54.7% share.
It is followed by Sakura Cloud with 11.9% and Google Cloud with 9.9%.

Amazon Web Services 54.7%
Sakura Cloud 11.9%
Google Cloud 9.9%
IDCF Cloud 8.6%
GMO Cloud 6.4%
Akamai Cloud 4.8%
Google App Engine 4.1%
Microsoft Azure 3.6%
Firebase 3.5%
Oracle Cloud 1.5%
Vercel 1.4%
Fujitsu Cloud 0.8%
IBM Cloud 0.5%
Vultr 0.5%
Kinsta 0.5%

🚀 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.

7. Google App Engine ^(-2)
10. Oracle Cloud ^(-5)
13. IBM Cloud ^(-10)
19. Heroku ^(-3)
21. Supabase ^(-6)
22. Render ^(-8)
23. Binero Cloud ^(-23)
24. Fly ^(-9)

✨ Best Cloud Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 44 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	54.7%
⏳	Sakura Cloud Osaka, Japan A Japanese IaaS platform from the ISP Sakura Internet that provides virtual servers, GPU instances, block and object storage, and virtual networking. ¥1,980+/month	11.9%
3	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	9.9%
⏳	IDCF Cloud Tokyo, Japan A Japanese IaaS platform owned by SoftBank that provides virtual machines, bare metal servers, and managed Kubernetes. $$$	8.6%
⏳	GMO Cloud Tokyo, Japan A Japanese cloud computing platform that provides virtual servers, block storage, load balancers, and VPN connectivity. $$$	6.4%
6	Akamai 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	4.8%
7	Google App Engine A cloud-based platform-as-a-service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Free tier	4.1%
8	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%
9	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	3.5%
10	Oracle Cloud Austin, Texas, United States A cloud computing platform that delivers more than 200 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services spanning compute, storage, networking, databases, analytics, and AI. Free tier	1.5%
11	Vercel San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform for deploying and hosting websites, applications, and serverless functions. Free$20+/user/month	1.4%
⏳	Fujitsu Cloud Kawasaki, Japan A Japanese cloud platform from Fujitsu that provides IaaS and PaaS through two product lines: FJcloud-O, based on OpenStack, and FJcloud-V, based on VMware vSphere. $$$	0.8%
13	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%
⏳	Vultr West Palm Beach, Florida, United States A US-based independent cloud platform that provides cloud compute, bare metal, and Kubernetes services across over 30 global data center regions. $2.5+/month	0.5%
15	Kinsta West Hollywood, California, United States A managed WordPress hosting platform built on Google Cloud that provides hosting, performance optimization, and site management tools for WordPress websites. $35+/month	0.5%
16	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	0.4%
17	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%
18	Alibaba Cloud Hangzhou, China A Chinese cloud computing platform that provides infrastructure, storage, networking, database, security, AI, and big data services. Free tier	0.3%
19	Heroku San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform as a service that enables developers to build, run, and scale web applications without managing underlying infrastructure. $5+/month	0.2%
20	Tencent Cloud Shenzhen, China A Chinese cloud computing platform that operates more than 60 availability zones across 23 geographic regions.	0.07%
21	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.07%
22	Render San Francisco, California, United States A unified cloud platform for building and running applications and websites with a global CDN, private networks, and automatic deployments from Git. Free$19+/user/month	0.06%
23	Binero Cloud Bromma, Sweden A Swedish sovereign cloud platform built on OpenStack that provides IaaS and Kubernetes-based container services from a green data center in Stockholm, designed to meet European data privacy and GDPR requirements. 127 SEK+/month	0.04%
24	Fly Chicago, Illinois, United States A developer-centric cloud computing platform for deploying applications and databases close to end users at the edge. $3+/month	0.03%
⏳	Naver Cloud Seongnam, Korea A South Korean cloud platform that offers KVM virtual machines, bare-metal servers on dual Intel Xeon Gold processors, and NVIDIA GPU instances including the A100 and H100. $$$	0.03%

👉 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 208,625 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 97 cloud services across the web.
Of these, 44 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.