⚡ 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 4.4% of all websites.
92.5% of these sites use only one cloud storage service, 6.6% use two, and 0.9% use three or more of them.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 72.2% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud Storage with 15.4% and DigitalOcean Spaces with 6.3%.

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.

Alibaba Cloud OSS is #1 in China ^(-6)
Selectel Object Storage is #1 in Russia ^(-9)
Cloudflare R2 is #2 in Indonesia ^(-4)
Azure Blob Storage is #2 in Czechia ^(-2)
Cloud Storage for Firebase is #3 in Germany ^(-2)
Vercel Blob is #7 in the United States ^(-1)

✨ Best Cloud Storage Services

Below is a more detailed list of 22 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$$$	72.2%
2	Google Cloud Storage Mountain View, California, United States A managed object storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data on Google's infrastructure. Free tier$$$	15.4%
3	DigitalOcean Spaces New York, United States A cloud-based, S3-compatible object storage service for storing and serving large amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, and static files. $5+/month	6.3%
4	Azure Blob Storage Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft's cloud object storage service for storing massive amounts of unstructured data such as text, images, and binary files. Free tier$$$	5.9%
5	Cloud Storage for Firebase Mountain View, California, United States A powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service powered by Google Cloud Storage. Free tier$$$	4%
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$$$	1.5%
7	Alibaba Cloud OSS Hangzhou, China A fully managed object storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs. Free tier$$$	0.8%
8	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$$$	0.4%
9	Ceph Raleigh, North Carolina, United States An open-source distributed storage platform that links multiple servers into a single, scalable storage cluster for object, block, and file storage. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	Selectel Object Storage Saint Petersburg, Russia A service for storing and distributing unlimited amounts of unstructured and semi-structured data.	0.2%
11	Wasabi Boston, Massachusetts, United States Cloud storage that does not charge for egress or API requests and can cost up to 80% less than the competition. $$$	0.2%
12	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.	0.2%
13	Tencent Cloud Object Storage Shenzhen, China A distributed storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs.	0.2%
14	Baidu Object Storage Beijing, China A Chinese storage service provided by Baidu AI Cloud that supports multiple storage types and regions. $$$	0.2%
15	Hetzner Object Storage Gunzenhausen, Germany An S3-compatible object storage service from the German cloud hosting provider Hetzner. €4.99/month	0.2%
16	Akamai Object Storage Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A globally available, S3-compliant cloud storage service offered as part of the Akamai Cloud platform, designed for storing and managing unstructured data at scale. $5+/month	0.2%
17	Backblaze B2 San Mateo, California, United States A hot cloud object storage service with Amazon S3 compatibility and predictable, usage-based pricing. $$$	0.1%
⏳	MinIO Redwood City, California, United States An S3-compatible object storage whose open-source version is no longer maintained. FreeOpen source	0.07%
19	OVHcloud Object Storage Roubaix, France A scalable cloud storage service from OVHCloud that provides S3- and OpenStack Swift-compatible APIs. $$$	0.06%
20	UpCloud Object Storage Helsinki, Finland An S3-compatible object storage service with zero-cost egress and automatic scaling based on usage. $5+/month	0.03%
21	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%
22	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%

🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
We currently track the presence of 22 cloud storage services across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.