In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars

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It’s fair to say that even before the impact of COVID-19, companies had begun a steady march to the cloud. Maybe it wasn’t fast enough for AWS, as Andy Jassy made clear in his 2019 Re:invent keynote, but it was happening all the same and the steady revenue increases across the cloud infrastructure market bore that out.

As we look at the most recent quarter’s earnings reports for the main players in the market, it seems the pandemic and economic fall out has done little to slow that down. In fact, it may be contributing to its growth.According to numbers supplied by Synergy Research, the cloud infrastructure market totaled $29 billion in revenue for Q12020 …