Companies Using IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud Usage Statistics

IBM Cloud reads 1,252 domains on our June 2026 rollup, 1,388 in July and 1,405 in August. Three points cannot carry a rate of change, and this movement is coverage rather than adoption. Across the whole crawl, active detections went from 321.0M in June to 352.2M in August, a 9.7% widening of what we can see. The mechanism pushes the same way. A domain enters this set the first time we resolve an ibmid= record on it, and because a TXT record costs nothing to keep and nobody goes looking for old ones to delete, it effectively never leaves. A series built on a marker that only accumulates will slope upward whether or not anyone opened an account. The August figure, 1,405, is the one quoted at the top of this page.

Which Countries Use IBM Cloud the Most?

Which countries use IBM Cloud the most? The United States holds 465 of the 1,275 companies we could place, 36.47%, which leaves 810, 63.53%, outside it. The United Kingdom is second on 148 (11.61%) and Australia third on 93 (7.29%), then France 61 (4.78%), Sweden and Germany level on 59 each (4.63%), Canada 39 (3.06%), New Zealand 28 (2.2%), Spain 27 (2.12%) and Brazil 26 (2.04%). The fifteen countries listed cover 1,094 of the 1,275, 85.8%. Two clusters sit inside that: the nine European countries in the list carry 429 companies, 33.65%, and Australia with New Zealand carries 121, 9.49%. The named detections agree. Orange, Danone and GEODIS in France, ING Group and Rabobank in the Netherlands, AON, Diageo and Intertek in the United Kingdom, Intesa Sanpaolo in Italy, E.ON in Germany, DSV in Denmark, Primark in Ireland, Petrobras and Santander's Brazilian group in Brazil, Yes Bank in Mumbai, RBC and Bell Canada in Canada. Sixteen of the 34 companies named on this page, 47.06%, are American, and that list is ordered by LinkedIn following rather than by country.

IBM Cloud Market Share Among Cloud Infrastructure

What is IBM Cloud's market share? IBM Cloud holds 0.18% of our Cloud Infrastructure category and ranks 8th of the 19 technologies in it, on 1,405 domains. Read that as a count of domains carrying a marker and nothing else. The category is dominated by Amazon S3 on 659,040 domains and 86.13%, then DigitalOcean Spaces (41,623, 5.44%), Google Cloud Storage (26,268, 3.43%) and Alibaba Cloud (18,768, 2.45%). Those rows are found in asset URLs on the pages we crawl, so a domain joins them the moment one image or script is served from a bucket. IBM Cloud joins on a DNS record a company publishes once per domain, and only when it sets up an account. Two surfaces, one shared denominator. The gap to 7th is 0.01 of a percentage point, HPE GreenLake at 0.19%, which is a second reason not to read the ordering as a market position. Docker, 6th on 0.5%, is the one row above IBM Cloud that we match the same way, on its own domain verification record.

IBM Cloud Customers by Company Size & Age

What size companies use IBM Cloud? The distribution is close to flat, and that is the finding. 51-200 employees is the largest band at 259 of the 1,281 companies with a headcount on file, 20.22%, and 1001-5000 is level with it at 258, 20.14%. Nothing else reaches 15%: 201-500 is 188 (14.68%), 10001+ is 170 (13.27%), 501-1000 is 132 (10.3%), 11-50 is 106 (8.27%), 5001-10000 is 88 (6.87%) and 1-10 is 80 (6.25%). Grouped, 445 companies, 34.74%, employ 200 or fewer, and 516, 40.28%, employ more than 1,000. On the domain basis, 124 of the 1,405 domains, 8.83%, belong to organisations with 8,000 or more employees. This is not the shape an enterprise-only product produces, and the mechanism is why: publishing a TXT record to verify a domain is free and takes one DNS edit, so it records that an account exists at any tier, from a trial upward. The 34 companies named further down all sit in the 10001+ band because that table is ordered by LinkedIn following, not because the base is.

What Industries Use IBM Cloud the Most?

Advertising Services leads at 96 of the 1,251 companies with a recorded industry, 7.67%, ahead of Financial Services at 55 (4.4%) and Hospitality at 49 (3.92%). Read the single rows and you would call this an agency product, which it is not. Group the related labels and the real concentration appears: Financial Services, Banking and Insurance together are 139 companies, 11.11%, while IT Services and IT Consulting with Software Development is 79, 6.31%. The twelve labels shown cover 521 companies, 41.65%, so 730 of the 1,251, 58.35%, sit outside them and are spread thinly. Advertising Services is also the row to treat with the most caution. Two things can put a label that high and this page cannot separate them. One is straightforward account setup. The other is a counting effect: we count domains, and an organisation that verifies several domains contributes several rows behind a single account. That label is broad on LinkedIn as well, covering agencies, media firms and marketing services businesses of very different kinds.

Banks and insurers using IBM Cloud are the largest real cluster on this page once the labels are grouped. Financial Services (55, 4.4%), Banking (43, 3.44%) and Insurance (41, 3.28%) come to 139 companies, 11.11% of the 1,251 with a recorded industry, and the named detections match that weight: RBC on rbc.com, ING Group on ing.com, Capital One, BNY, BlackRock, AON, Intesa Sanpaolo, Rabobank, Santander's Brazilian group and Yes Bank. Advertising Services is the largest single label at 7.67% and has no counterpart at all in the 34 named companies, which is itself information about how those 96 companies reached this page: they are numerous rather than large. Hospitality at 3.92% has no counterpart in the named list either. The rest of the top twelve reads like a general enterprise base rather than a vertical: IT Services and IT Consulting at 3.2% (Alorica, Fiserv), Software Development at 3.12%, Hospitals and Health Care at 2.88% (CVS Health, Optum, Elevance Health), Retail at 2.8% (Lowe's, IKEA, Primark), Real Estate at 2.8%, Utilities at 2.32% (E.ON) and Food and Beverage Manufacturing at 1.84% (Danone). Read two of these labels with the domain rather than the brand: aetna.com is filed under Wellness and Fitness Services rather than Insurance, and ttec.com and taskus.com under Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting rather than IT Services.

IBM Cloud Alternatives & Competitors

Cloud Infrastructure is a category whose members are counted on different surfaces, so this table needs reading twice. Amazon S3 holds 86.13% of it on 659,040 domains, with DigitalOcean Spaces at 5.44% (41,623), Google Cloud Storage at 3.43% (26,268), Alibaba Cloud at 2.45% (18,768) and Alibaba Cloud Object Storage at 1.46% (11,150). Every one of those is object storage, and a domain joins those rows when a crawled page serves a single asset from a bucket, which can happen without anyone signing a contract. IBM Cloud's 1,405 domains come from a verification record in DNS. That is the difference between counting a file and counting an account, and no ratio between the two columns means anything. The comparison that does hold is Docker, 6th in the same category on 0.5% and 3,788 domains, matched on its own docker-verification record: same category, same mechanism, 2.7 times the domains. Postman's published API documentation is the third profile we build on this mechanism, in a different category. If what you want is IBM Cloud's standing against AWS, Azure or Google Cloud as businesses, this table cannot give it to you, and neither can any table built from web detections.

IBM Cloud Customer Migration

There is no switching table here, and the reason is not that the query came back empty. It returned counts. The largest corridor we measured for IBM Cloud is 19 domains, and the candidates sit on object storage rows in the same category. We suppressed the table because those corridors fail the test we apply before publishing one: the two technologies have to fill the same functional role, and they have to be measured on surfaces that can be compared. Object storage found in an asset URL and a cloud account found in a DNS TXT record fail both halves. A company that stops serving images from a bucket has not left IBM Cloud, and a company that publishes an ibmid= record has not left a bucket. Printing 19 domains as a migration trend would be an invented number wearing a chart. The churn figure says the same thing from the other side: 8 domains have dropped IBM Cloud since we began tracking in March 2026, 0.57% of the 1,405 counted here, which is a fact about DNS housekeeping rather than about retention.

Tech Stack of IBM Cloud-Powered Websites

The co-occurrence table on this page mixes two kinds of evidence, and the section headings show where the line falls. Microsoft 365 on 56.24% of these domains is another account marker read out of DNS rather than software found on a page, and Atlassian, which has no icon in our dictionary and so is absent from the table, sits at 46.28% on the same basis. Rows like those say the company verified a domain with another vendor too, which is close to saying the company is a real business with a corporate IT function. The rest is read from the pages themselves and is the website's own stack: Google Tag Manager on 78.32%, Google Analytics on 70.14%, Cloudflare on 50.65%, Priority Hints on 44.04%, Google Font API on 40.7%, WordPress on 33.47% and OneTrust on 31.42%. Now notice what is missing. Nothing in this table identifies an IBM-operated delivery layer. A third of these domains run WordPress and half sit behind Cloudflare, which is what a corporate website looks like when the website is not the thing the cloud account was opened for. The marker belongs to the domain, and the workload it was bought for may sit somewhere no web crawler can see. One denominator note: co-occurrence is measured across the 1,467 domains our live crawl currently answers for IBM Cloud, a slightly wider set than the 1,405 in the August rollup this page's headline uses, so every percentage in this table divides by 1,467. On that same basis 88.0% of the domains match to a company record, against roughly 46% on Amazon ALB, because a domain carrying a corporate DNS record is a registered business rather than a parked name.

Verified SaaS Accounts on the Same Domains

Microsoft 365

825 (56.24%)

Analytics & Tag Management

Google Tag Manager

1,149 (78.32%)

Google Analytics

1,029 (70.14%)

Delivery & Front-End

Cloudflare

743 (50.65%)

Google Font API

597 (40.7%)

Priority Hints

646 (44.04%)

Site Platform

WordPress

491 (33.47%)

Consent & Privacy

OneTrust

461 (31.42%)

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