Summary of the development of cloud computing

Since cloud computing was proposed in 2006, it has roughly experienced the formation stage, development stage and application stage. The past decade has been a decade of rapid progress in cloud computing, and the global cloud computing market has grown several times. At present, the global cloud computing market maintains a steady growth trend. In 2019, the global cloud computing market represented by IaaS, PaaS and SaaS reached 188.3 billion, a growth rate of 20.86%. It is expected that the average market growth rate in the next few years will be around 18%, and the market size will exceed US$350 billion by 2023.

In the future, cloud computing will still usher in the next golden decade, entering a period of inclusive development. First, with the advancement of new infrastructure, cloud computing will speed up the application process and achieve rapid development in different fields such as the Internet, government affairs, finance, transportation, logistics, and education. Second, in the context of the global digital economy, cloud computing has become an inevitable choice for enterprises’ digital transformation, and the process of enterprises going to the cloud will further accelerate. Third, the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has accelerated the implementation of SaaS services such as remote office and online education, and promoted the rapid development of the cloud computing industry.