Data Is Pulling The Cloud Forward
Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
To understand 2026, let's start with what happened in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud didn't just grow; they grew at scale. Combined, they crossed well north of $300B in annual cloud revenue, still expanding around 20-30% year over year.
At that size, growth doesn't come from basic migrations anymore. It comes from new kinds of workloads showing up in volume.
That workload is AI.
And AI has changed the rules of cloud in a very specific way: it made data the center of gravity.