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Market Share: South Africa Public Cloud Services Market Shares, 2025

George Ayad, Jebin George, Mustafa Ibrahim — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

"South Africa has rapidly evolved into a hyperscaler-rich environment, with multiple major global cloud providers establishing a dense in-country footprint, fueling a market growth of 28.6%. Competition among these top players is decisively shifting. Vendors are no longer competing purely on capacity; instead, market momentum is being driven by AI-enabled application modernization, AI-driven innovation, and the critical ability to guarantee digital trust and sovereignty," says George Ayad, senior research analyst on cloud and datacenters and enterprise infrastructure, IDC.

Trends in Cloud Security

Rob Tiffany — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Perspective compares how Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Tencent Cloud are evolving their cloud security postures in 2026, against a backdrop of agentic AI adoption, CNAPP market consolidation, and hardening data sovereignty rules. It finds that every provider is converging on AI-native security and machine identity governance as a top investment priority, even as their architectures, regulatory footprints, and third-party ecosystems continue to diverge sharply. For technology leaders, the document offers a practical framework centered on identity mapping, zero trust verification, tested posture management, and jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction sovereignty checks for cutting through vendor security marketing and making an evidence-based platform decision.

“Buyers keep asking us which cloud is ‘most secure.’ This is the wrong question in 2026, as every leading provider can point to real investment. The right question is whose architecture, sovereignty posture, and machine-identity controls actually match the workload you’re about to move,” explains Rob Tiffany, research director, Cloud Infrastructure at IDC.

IDC MarketScape: U.S. Private and Secure Cloud Infrastructure for Defense and Intelligence 2026 Vendor Assessment

Alan Webber — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC study assesses providers of private and secure cloud infrastructure to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. These platforms give the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community the classified, air-gapped, and tactical edge computing capacity needed to run mission systems, from intelligence processing to AI-enabled decision support, across every classification level. The market centers on two contract vehicles, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability for DoD and the Commercial Cloud Enterprise for the Intelligence Community, both of which fix the competitive field by vehicle rather than by open market share.

"Cloud infrastructure in this market has moved past cost and agility arguments and become a warfighting and intelligence capability in its own right. Getting a workload into a classified environment now depends less on which provider has the broadest commercial footprint and more on which one can get a given classification level authorized fastest, keep it running when the network drops, and put generative AI inside that same accredited boundary. Holding a seat on JWCC or C2E is table stakes; the real competition happens task order by task order." — Alan Webber, program vice president, IDC Government Insights

IDC Survey Spotlight: How Should Managed SPs Optimize the Value of All Service Providers Used for Agentic AI That Are Also Used as Partners to Support Managed Services?

David Tapper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight highlights the results from the following question posed to 820 respondents and firms with over 1,000 employees across multiple countries and industries, as part of IDC’s 2026 Worldwide Managed Services Survey: “Provider preference for agentic AI platforms and capabilities. Which type of provider or operating model would be your organization’s primary preference for round-the-clock (24 x 7) management of agentic AI capabilities over the next 12–24 months?” This IDC Survey Spotlight then highlights the investments that managed SPs need to pursue to optimize the value of partnerships with all service providers that support agentic AI and are also utilized to support the provisioning of managed services with these capabilities. These investments include implementing critical governance structures, establishing key architectural structures, and building strategic organizational and operational structures.

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Managed Cloud Services, 2026

David Tapper — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide managed cloud services market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers/service providers.'

Fundamental changes in enterprise sourcing strategies for managed cloud services driven primarily by increased competition from public cloud providers to provide enterprises with cloud and AI capabilities and increased enterprise adoption of AI are placing intense pressure on managed service providers (SPs) to transform their businesses to stay competitive. Consequently, managed SPs must make fundamental changes to their business models, with particular focus on assisting organizations to effectively use AI, particularly agentic AI, along with utilizing new partners such as AI model providers. Key changes must also focus on investing in autonomous operating platforms, creating new business metrics for success, incorporating robust AI governance, utilizing AI services supply chains, and maintaining control over their partnership ecosystems.

2026 H1 Sovereign Cloud Global Market Developments Update

Rahiel Nasir — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Perspective rounds up notable developments in the global sovereign cloud market during the first half of 2026. It finds that sovereignty crossed a threshold in the period, moving from a vendor talking point to something codified in law and hardwired into public procurement, most visibly through the EC's Cloud and AI Development Act, but echoed by sovereignty-weighted procurement in Canada, bilateral standards work between Japan and the United States, and national AI programs across the Gulf.

Drawing on IDC's July 2026 Worldwide Digital Sovereignty Survey, the document shows that sovereign cloud is now mainstream across every region, that AI has become a primary driver of adoption, and that buyers increasingly frame sovereignty as a question of IT and vendor risk rather than politics. The document argues that genuine sovereignty extends well beyond data localization to encompass autonomy, control, and choice and advises providers to offer verifiable guarantees and build trusted ecosystems rather than lean on marketing claims.

"In the first half of 2026, sovereignty stopped being something vendors talked about and became something governments legislated for. That raises the bar for everyone. The winners will be the providers that can prove control, autonomy, and choice and those that help customers treat sovereignty as a practical exercise in managing IT and vendor risk, rather than a political argument to be won," says Rahiel Nasir, research director, European Cloud Strategies, and lead analyst, Worldwide Digital Sovereignty, IDC.

IDC Market Glance: Cloud Application Deployment Platforms, 3Q26

Matthew Flug — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Glance provides a visual overview of the cloud application deployment platforms (CADPs) market landscape. It maps the ecosystem of vendors addressing organizations' needs in building and deploying high-performing, modern, AI, agentic, and next-gen applications across the cloud and digital-first world. The landscape includes a mix of vendors, from new entrants to mature cloud service providers, and breaks the market into five submarkets: deployment-centric application platforms, container orchestration software, platform management solutions and portals, function-as-a-service software, and deployment operating systems.

Market Analysis Perspective: European Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2025

George Ayad, Carla Arend — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides insight into the current and future state of the European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market for 2026. It includes an overview of the regional market landscape, technology buyer perspectives across Europe, a market outlook, and IDC’s strategic advice for technology suppliers operating in this market.

“The European public cloud IaaS market is steadily expanding as enterprises establish the foundational infrastructure required to support emerging AI strategies. However, this deployment phase has intensified focus on cost containment and data localization. Consequently, the market is seeing targeted dual-track investments: global hyperscalers are expanding regional, ring-fenced operational zones, while established European providers scale specialized sovereign platforms to address highly regulated workloads amid ongoing geopolitical complexity,” said George Ayad, senior research analyst, IDC’s Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure.

Market Forecast: Worldwide Cloud-Native Engineering Software Forecast, 2026–2030

George Mironescu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC presentation provides a five-year forecast for the worldwide cloud-native engineering software market and delivers insights into the drivers and inhibitors of growth.

It examines market growth across various areas and highlights the key developments driving the growth, along with strategic implications and actions for technology vendors.

“Cloud native is the bedrock for AI — without it, shipping AI workloads at scale isn’t viable. To enable this, organizations are doubling down on maturing their cloud-native delivery engines, sharpening their focus on operating elastic, secure, and GPU-optimized environments.” — George Mironescu, associate research director, Software Development, Delivery, and Engineering, IDC

Market Forecast：国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場産業分野別予測、2026年～2030年

Masaru Muramatsu, Tatsuhiro Soga — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場について、2026年7月末までに収集した情報を基に定性的かつ定量的な分析結果をまとめたものである。本調査レポートでは、国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場のサービス別および産業分野別に、市場動向を分析して2026年～2030年の市場予測を行っている。

国内パブリッククラウドサービス市場は、企業の既存の基幹システムのITモダナイゼーションの進展、およびAI（Artificial Intelligence）利用の実践フェーズへの移行によって、2026年以降も高い成長を継続する。後者では、AIエージェントの利活用を前提に、AIユースケースがバックオフィスやITといったビジネスプロセスへ拡大し、AIプラットフォームを中心とするPaaS市場の急拡大が見込まれる。「2026年以降、AI活用の先行企業は、そのスケール拡大とROI（Return on Investment）創出を本格化させる見通しである。AIプラットフォームには、大規模なAIエージェントやエージェンティックAIの運用における精度・信頼性の向上に加え、コスト管理・最適化も求められる。その実現には、先進企業やITサービスベンダーとの共創がいっそう重要となる」と、IDC Japan、Software, Service, and IT Spendingのリサーチマネージャーである村松大は述べている。