Amazon's AWS faces tighter competition as Azure & Google Cloud outpace in growth. See more on AMZN's risks in AI, custom ...

This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.

From nearly 25 percent of AWS and Azure customers spending between $500,000 to over $5 million each month to cloud adoptions rates of Google Cloud, here’s five key data results from Flexera’s ...

Here’s a breakdown of public cloud customer spending on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle OCI and IBM workloads, according to Flexera’s 2025 cloud report.

Microsoft and AWS have made DeepSeek-R1, the Chinese AI model that disrupted Silicon Valley, available on their cloud platforms, intensifying debates over AI cost efficiency and U.S. tech dominance.

And this can make it prohibitively expensive to leave. Similar to rivals, including AWS, Microsoft did already allow customers to transfer 100GB of data out of Azure each month for free.

AWS is a division of Amazon that offers a wide range of cloud computing services. Amazon Web Services' pay-as-you-go model makes it a popular choice.