⚡ Cloud Storages

Cloud storages are online services that allow websites and applications to store, retrieve, and manage data on remote servers.

Many of these services support an API compatible with Amazon S3, making it easy for developers to switch between providers.

According to our research, cloud storage services are detected on 3.9% of all websites.
93.5% of these sites use only one cloud storage service, 5.9% use two, and 0.7% use three or more of them.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading cloud storage services in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Amazon S3, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 76.3% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud Storage with 14.3% and DigitalOcean Spaces with 5.7%.

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of services that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Cloudflare R2 is #1 in Indonesia ^(-5)
Alibaba Cloud OSS is #1 in China ^(-6)
Selectel Object Storage is #2 in Russia ^(-7)
Azure Storage is #3 in the Netherlands ^(-2)

✨ Best Cloud Storage Services

Below is a more detailed list of 20 cloud storage services we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Amazon S3 Seattle, Washington, United States An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Free tier$$$	76.3%
2	Google Cloud Storage Mountain View, California, United States A RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. Free tier$$$	14.3%
3	DigitalOcean Spaces New York, United States A cloud-based S3-compatible object storage from DigitalOcean. $5+/month	5.7%
4	Cloud Storage for Firebase Mountain View, California, United States A powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service powered by Google Cloud Storage. Free tier$$$	3.5%
5	Azure Storage Redmond, Washington, United States Offers highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for a variety of data objects in the cloud. Free tier$$$	3.1%
6	Cloudflare R2 San Francisco, California, United States A globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service designed to store large amounts of unstructured data without charging egress bandwidth fees. Free tier$$$	1.4%
7	Alibaba Cloud OSS Hangzhou, China A fully managed object storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs. Free tier$$$	1%
8	Ceph Raleigh, North Carolina, United States An open-source distributed storage platform that links multiple servers into a single, scalable storage cluster for object, block, and file storage. FreeOpen source	0.3%
9	Selectel Object Storage Saint Petersburg, Russia A service for storing and distributing unlimited amounts of unstructured and semi-structured data.	0.2%
10	Tencent Cloud Object Storage Shenzhen, China A distributed storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs.	0.2%
11	Wasabi Boston, Massachusetts, United States Cloud storage that does not charge for egress or API requests and can cost up to 80% less than the competition. $$$	0.2%
12	Baidu Object Storage Beijing, China A Chinese storage service provided by Baidu AI Cloud that supports multiple storage types and regions. $$$	0.2%
13	Akamai Object Storage Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A globally available, S3-compliant, fault-tolerant storage solution. $5+/month	0.2%
14	Vercel Blob San Francisco, California, United States A scalable, and cost-effective object storage service for static assets, such as images, videos, audio files, and more. Free$$$	0.1%
15	Oracle Cloud Storage Austin, Texas, United States Provides a high-performance storage service that scales up to 1.3 million IOPS and 1 PB per instance.	0.1%
16	Backblaze B2 Hot cloud object storage that is fully compatible with AWS S3, but for less money. $$$	0.1%
17	Hetzner Object Storage Gunzenhausen, Germany An S3-compatible object storage service from the German cloud hosting provider Hetzner. €4.99/month	0.06%
18	OVHcloud Object Storage Roubaix, France A scalable cloud storage service that provides S3- and OpenStack Swift-compatible APIs. $$$	0.03%
19	Vultr Object Storage West Palm Beach, Florida, United States An S3-compatible object storage service from the American hosting provider Vultr. $18+/month	0.03%
20	IBM Cloud Object Storage Armonk, New York, United States Highly available, durable, and secure cloud storage with partial S3 API support. Free tier	0.02%

Data is based on the analysis of 3,176,795 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on February 12, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.