⚡ Cloud Services in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, cloud services are detected on 13.9% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Amazon Web Services, which dominates the market with a substantial 51.3% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud with 20% and Microsoft Azure with 12.2%.

Amazon Web Services 51.3%
Google Cloud 20%
Microsoft Azure 12.2%
DigitalOcean 7.3%
Akamai Connected Cloud 7.2%
Google App Engine 4.1%
Kinsta 2.9%
Firebase 2.7%
Vercel 1.9%
Netlify 1.7%
Oracle Cloud 1.1%
Scaleway 0.8%
Alibaba Cloud 0.5%
Huawei Cloud 0.3%
Supabase 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Microsoft Azure ^(-1)
4. DigitalOcean ^(-1)
6. Google App Engine ^(-5)
7. Kinsta ^(-5)
10. Netlify ^(-3)
12. Scaleway ^(-2)
14. Huawei Cloud ^(-5)
15. Supabase ^(-6)

✨ Best Cloud Services

Below is a more detailed list of 17 cloud services used on sites from South Africa, 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	51.3%
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	20%
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	12.2%
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	7.3%
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	7.2%
6	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%
7	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	2.9%
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	2.7%
9	Vercel San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform for deploying and hosting websites, applications, and serverless functions. Free$20+/user/month	1.9%
10	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	1.7%
11	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.	1.1%
12	Scaleway Paris, France A French cloud computing and hosting provider that stores all its data in Europe.	0.8%
13	Alibaba Cloud Hangzhou, China A Chinese cloud computing platform owned by Alibaba Group. Free tier	0.5%
14	Huawei Cloud Shenzhen, China A cloud computing platform offered by Huawei that offers a range of services and solutions for various industries and scenarios.	0.3%
15	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.3%
16	OVHcloud Roubaix, France A French cloud infrastructure provider offering public and private cloud, dedicated servers, and web hosting services.	0.08%
17	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	0.08%

👉 See Also

🌎 Cloud Services in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.