⚡ Cloud Storages in South Africa

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

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

According to our research, cloud storage services are detected on 3.3% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Amazon S3, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 74.7% share.
It is followed by Google Cloud Storage with 16% and DigitalOcean Spaces with 6.3%.

Amazon S3 74.7%
Google Cloud Storage 16%
DigitalOcean Spaces 6.3%
Azure Storage 5.4%
Cloud Storage for Firebase 4.8%
Cloudflare R2 0.5%
Backblaze B2 0.2%
Alibaba Cloud OSS 0.2%
Akamai Object Storage 0.2%
Vercel Blob 0.2%

🚀 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. Azure Storage ^(-1)
7. Backblaze B2 ^(-9)
9. Akamai Object Storage ^(-4)
10. Vercel Blob ^(-4)

✨ Best Cloud Storage Services

Below is a more detailed list of 10 cloud storage services used on sites from South Africa, 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$$$	74.7%
2	Google Cloud Storage Mountain View, California, United States A RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. Free tier$$$	16%
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 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$$$	5.4%
5	Cloud Storage for Firebase Mountain View, California, United States A powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service powered by Google Cloud Storage. Free tier$$$	4.8%
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$$$	0.5%
7	Backblaze B2 San Mateo, California, United States Hot cloud object storage that is fully compatible with Amazon S3, but for less money. $$$	0.2%
8	Alibaba Cloud OSS Hangzhou, China A fully managed object storage service with Amazon S3-compatible APIs. Free tier$$$	0.2%
9	Akamai Object Storage Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A globally available, S3-compliant, fault-tolerant storage solution. $5+/month	0.2%
10	Vercel Blob San Francisco, California, United States A scalable, and cost-effective object storage service for static assets, such as images, videos, audio files, and more. Free$$$	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Cloud Storages in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,874 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on April 2, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.