According to Visual Capitalist, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft collectively control roughly 74% of the public cloud market.
Google is deleting old user accounts that have been inactive for at least two years, and tech YouTuber "Mental Outlaw" believes the move signifies that the company is running out of storage—which might indicate the decline of free online service models.
Mental Outlaw explained that many early users of Gmail used the service as a form of cloud storage—saving gigabytes of photos and files on the platform. The tech-focused YouTube influencer said that Google's initiative to reclaim underused space and abandoned accounts indicates that the free storage services are becoming too costly for Google to maintain.
Cloud storage by type in 2023. Source: MarketsandMarkets.
