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Its probably a class size of 2, with Amazon. Beyond those two though, no one else is close.

• tazjin 10y ago
  I honestly don't think Amazon is even close to Google. How much more infrastructure do they have besides AWS? How much does Google have besides GCP?
  • tybit 10y ago
    That's ignoring just how much larger AWS is than GCP.
    • tazjin 10y ago
      Sure, but those are the public offerings - the largest part of Google's infrastructure is not public.
• _bpo 10y ago
  Capital expenditures might shed some light on this. I don't think there's enough public data to be clear but in 2015 Amazon (4.8B), Google (9.9B) and Microsoft (5.9B) were at least on the same order of magnitude in terms of CapEx, whereas other major "datacenter" companies like Rackspace (475M) are much smaller. I don't think you can draw any definitive conclusions from this, but calling it a class of size 1 or 2 is probably an overstatement of Google (+/- Amazon)'s advantage over Microsoft at least.
• renaudg 10y ago
  Ever heard of Facebook ? :)
• manigandham 10y ago
  What? Close to what? There are many many companies with lots of network infrastructure. Google and Amazon are not by themselves.