⚡ Cloud Service Providers 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 service providers are detected on 16.5% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 20K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 with an impressive share of 46.4%, followed by Google Cloud with 19.6% and Microsoft Azure with 15.6%.

Amazon Web Services 46.4%
Google Cloud 19.6%
Microsoft Azure 15.6%
DigitalOcean 7%
Akamai Cloud 5.6%
Google App Engine 4.3%
Vercel 3.1%
Vultr 2.9%
Firebase 2.8%
Kinsta 2.5%
Netlify 1.5%
Heroku 0.7%
Supabase 0.6%
Alibaba Cloud 0.5%
Oracle Cloud 0.5%

🚀 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.

4. DigitalOcean ^(-1)
6. Google App Engine ^(-3)
11. Netlify ^(-1)
12. Heroku ^(-9)
13. Supabase ^(-14)
16. Scaleway ^(-1)
17. Railway ^(-19)
18. Huawei Cloud ^(-14)
20. Render ^(-10)
21. Odoo.sh ^(-26)

✨ Best Cloud Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 31 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	46.4%
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	19.6%
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	15.6%
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%
5	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	5.6%
6	Google App Engine A cloud-based platform-as-a-service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Free tier	4.3%
7	Vercel San Francisco, California, United States A cloud platform for deploying and hosting websites, applications, and serverless functions. Free$20+/user/month	3.1%
⏳	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	2.9%
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	2.8%
10	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	2.5%
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	1.5%
12	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	0.7%
13	Supabase Singapore An open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL. FreeOpen source$25+/month	0.6%
14	Alibaba Cloud Hangzhou, China A Chinese cloud computing platform that provides infrastructure, storage, networking, database, security, AI, and big data services. Free tier	0.5%
15	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	0.5%
16	Scaleway Paris, France A French cloud computing and hosting provider that stores customer data in Europe. €4.99+/month	0.4%
17	Railway San Francisco, California, United States A deployment platform that helps developers manage applications through the full lifecycle using Git-native workflows, composable infrastructure, and built-in observability tools. Free$5+/month	0.3%
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.	0.3%
⏳	Iomart Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom A UK sovereign cloud provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service, private cloud, and managed hosting from 12 wholly-owned data centers across the United Kingdom. $$$	0.2%
20	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	0.2%
21	Odoo.sh Grand Rosière, Belgium A cloud platform for developing, testing, and deploying Odoo applications and custom modules with integrated DevOps and continuous delivery workflows. $72.25+/month	0.2%
22	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	0.1%
⏳	Rackspace San Antonio, Texas, United States A US-based cloud platform provider that operates multitenant, OpenStack-based, and managed Kubernetes services across private, hybrid, and public clouds. $0.01+/hour	0.1%
⏳	Zenlayer Diamond Bar, California, United States A globally distributed edge cloud platform that provides low-latency virtual machines, bare metal cloud, and GPU compute across a network of over 300 edge nodes in more than 50 countries. $8.03+/month	0.09%
25	Upsun Paris, France A container-based Platform-as-a-Service that enables developers to build, iterate, and deploy applications using Git-native workflows with fully managed infrastructure. $10+/user/month	0.06%

👉 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 20,818 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 97 cloud services across the web.
Of these, 31 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on November 2, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.