The statistic shows the size of the public cloud computing market worldwide, from 2009 to 2021. This encompasses business process, platform, infrastructure, software, management, security, and advertising services delivered by public cloud services. In 2018, the public cloud services market was expected to reach around 186.4 billion U.S. dollars in size and by 2021 market revenue was forecast to exceed 302.5 billion U.S. dollars.
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The statistic shows the size of the public cloud computing market worldwide, from 2009 to 2021. This encompasses business process, platform, infrastructure, software, management, security, and advertising services delivered by public cloud services. In 2018, the public cloud services market was expected to reach around 186.4 billion U.S. dollars in size and by 2021 market revenue was forecast to exceed 302.5 billion U.S. dollars.
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- April 2017
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- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- 2015 to 2018
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**The cloud advertising segment was removed from Gartner's public cloud services forecast segments starting from 2017.
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- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- 2015 to 2018
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**The cloud advertising segment was removed from Gartner's public cloud services forecast segments starting from 2017.
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