{"id":606136,"date":"2025-08-15T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=606136"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:04:42","slug":"google-cloud-beats-azure-and-aws-while-huawei-cloud-remains-far-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/606136-google-cloud-beats-azure-and-aws-while-huawei-cloud-remains-far-behind.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud beats Azure and AWS while Huawei Cloud remains far behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google Cloud ranks as the most trusted cloud provider in South Africa, followed by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Huawei Cloud was well behind the top players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of the findings in Analytico\u2019s latest Business Technology Survey, which was conducted in August 2025 and completed by 1,057 respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey results only included responses from people who were involved in selecting ICT products and services for their company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the survey, South African business decision makers were asked which cloud provider they trusted the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Cloud ranked first with 47% of the vote, well above Microsoft Azure at 27% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 21%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google\u2019s performance is particularly impressive considering it only launched its Johannesburg cloud region, its first region in South Africa and Africa, in January 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google\u2019s entrance was long after Microsoft launched its Azure service in Johannesburg and Cape Town in March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon Web Services opened its first region on the continent in Cape Town in April 2020, a year after Microsoft\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Microsoft and AWS\u2019s head start in the local cloud market, Google Cloud has better brand awareness in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last year, the number of South African business decision makers saying they prefer Google Cloud increased from 39% to 47%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Azure decreased from 35% to 27%, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) declined from 22% to 21%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huawei Cloud, the first hyperscaler to officially launch cloud computing services in South Africa, performed poorly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 3% of business decision-makers said they considered Huawei Cloud the best option for their company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huawei Cloud\u2019s poor performance points to a lack of brand awareness among South African businesses. This is most likely a result of a poor marketing and media strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chart below shows the most trusted cloud providers in South Africa that IT decision-makers would select for their businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"963\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-606137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-3.jpg 963w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-3-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-3-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud ranked top as the most trusted cloud provider in South Africa, followed by Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Huawei Cloud was well behind the top players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":579639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[27543,33897,54531,24957],"class_list":["post-606136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon-web-services-aws","tag-google-cloud","tag-huawei-cloud","tag-microsoft-azure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606223,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606136\/revisions\/606223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}