⚡ Cloud Storages in Japan

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

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, cloud storage services are detected on 2.9% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Amazon S3, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 76.7% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud Storage with 22.2% and Azure Storage with 1%.

Amazon S3 76.7%
Google Cloud Storage 22.2%
Azure Storage 1%
DigitalOcean Spaces 0.8%
Cloud Storage for Firebase 0.7%
Ceph 0.2%
Alibaba Cloud OSS 0.2%
Cloudflare R2 0.2%
Wasabi 0.1%
Tencent Cloud Object Storage 0.09%
Backblaze B2 0.07%
Oracle Cloud Storage 0.04%
Vercel Blob 0.04%
Baidu Object Storage 0.02%
Akamai Object Storage 0.02%

🚀 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.

3. Azure Storage ^(-2)
6. Ceph ^(-2)
9. Wasabi ^(-2)
11. Backblaze B2 ^(-5)
12. Oracle Cloud Storage ^(-3)
13. Vercel Blob ^(-1)
16. IBM Cloud Object Storage ^(-4)
17. Vultr Object Storage ^(-2)

✨ Best Cloud Storage Services

Below is a more detailed list of 17 cloud storage services used on sites from Japan, 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$$$	76.7%
2	Google Cloud Storage Mountain View, California, United States A RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. Free tier$$$	22.2%
3	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$$$	1%
4	DigitalOcean Spaces New York, United States A cloud-based, S3-compatible object storage service for storing and serving large amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, and static files. $5+/month	0.8%
5	Cloud Storage for Firebase Mountain View, California, United States A powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service powered by Google Cloud Storage. Free tier$$$	0.7%
6	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	0.2%
7	Alibaba Cloud OSS Hangzhou, China A fully managed object storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs. Free tier$$$	0.2%
8	Cloudflare R2 San Francisco, California, United States A globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service designed to store large amounts of unstructured data without charging egress bandwidth fees. Free tier$$$	0.2%
9	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. $$$	0.1%
10	Tencent Cloud Object Storage Shenzhen, China A distributed storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs.	0.09%
11	Backblaze B2 Hot cloud object storage that is fully compatible with AWS S3, but for less money. $$$	0.07%
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.	0.04%
13	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$$$	0.04%
14	Baidu Object Storage Beijing, China A Chinese storage service provided by Baidu AI Cloud that supports multiple storage types and regions. $$$	0.02%
15	Akamai Object Storage Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A globally available, S3-compliant, fault-tolerant storage solution. $5+/month	0.02%
16	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%
17	Vultr Object Storage West Palm Beach, Florida, United States An S3-compatible object storage service from the American hosting provider Vultr. $18+/month	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 Cloud Storages in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,205 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.