At first when I read the post, I was surprised too and not happy about it. (see below) This is because I am rooting for Google Cloud, for selfish reasons of course ! On closer reading and research into Acceleration Economy - Cloud War Minutes, I realized that they have their proprietary ranking system. Ranking Benchmark: Market share and Growth. Product portfolio and Innovation. Customer focus and Satisfaction. Global reach and Scale. Their Top 10 Cloud providers: Microsoft. Google Cloud. Oracle. Amazon. SAP. ServiceNow. Workday. Salesforce. IBM. Snowflake. Needless to say, I became suspicious by the time I research until here but I decided to press on, with an “open mind”. Hopefully I could learn something new along the way. Oracle ranking justification. Their argument centred squarely on