That report is estimating "application workloads" and doesn't explain how it comes up with that number.

Here's another analyst report from Feb 2019 that estimates shares based on dollars of revenue at 32.2%, 16.5% and 9.5% respectively.

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-...

Is that including Microsoft's SaaS products in the total? (e.g. Office 365, Dynamics 365 etc.)

Perhaps people are not convinced Google is committed? I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they decided to simply shut down their cloud efforts.

I'm wondering if their practice of dropping products isn't coming back to bite them.

Wow, I thought GCP is much more before Azure, but I am a Linux dev so I understand my bias now.

Mind that for instance MSFT includes diffrent SaaS offerings like Office 356 and all their business software (to which neither Amazon or Google have competing offerings) in their numbers on cloud sales. IaaS/PaaS is just a part of it.

Google has G suite no?

I think GP packed two things into a single sentence:

Microsoft adds Office 365 etc to Cloud numbers, G Suite is a separate line item.

Also, Microsoft has other products that neither Amazon nor Google even provide an equivalent for (such as Dynamics NAV), also added to Cloud numbers.

GCP is half the costs of AWS. Azure is more expensive than both but I don't have enough experience with it to judge exactly by how much.

Any report comparing the 3 purely based on revenues should be taken as a joke.

the statement "GCP is half the cost of AWS" makes no sense at all. What product? What discounts?

Instance and storage. Standard price with no discount.

I cannot recapitulate your claim: google is at the least 80% the price of AWS across both instances and storage, given a good faith, reasonable analysis (given the differences in config types and feature sets in the two services).

This article from 2016 has good figures. Not much changed since then but could use a refresh with the newer instance types. https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-...

The basic instance n1-standard-1 vs c5.large is 80% more expensive on AWS. A shame AWS doesn't provide single core instances.

Google gives 30% discount automatically on instances running for a full month. AWS has no such thing. That's enough to put them in different league.

Anything AWS involving SSD or provisioned IOPS is abusively priced whereas Google simply has better performance on network storage and can attach any amount of local SSD to any instance.

Does AWS include amazon.com as a customer and therefore book resources used by amazon.com as license revenue? Doesn't Azure do that with Office 365?