NEW DELHI – The revenue from Indian public cloud services (PCS) market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) , and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, totalled $8.3 Billion in 2023, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) , 2 H 202 3 ( J uly - December ).The overall Indian public cloud services market is expected to reach $24.2 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 23.8% for 2023-28.

"While enterprises continue to modernize IT on IaaS offerings, core business applications have a shifting trend to SaaS models on public cloud. These offerings are further enhanced by GenAI technologies to improve user experience and productivity,” says Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Research Director, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence, IDC India.

“While SaaS will drive the volume of public cloud, strong growth also comes from PaaS offerings, like fully managed databases and serverless technologies, to deploy pure cloud native applications and modern data management infrastructure. In addition, GenAI adoption to streamline operations, improve customer experience, and increase innovation will also drive public cloud services growth," Ranjan ends.

The top two vendors continued to hold more than 40% of the market in 2023. SaaS continued to be the largest category in the overall public cloud services market, followed by IaaS and PaaS.

While segments like CRM, ERM, Collaborative Applications, and IaaS continued to drive growth, demand for AI platforms, Data Management Software and System Infrastructure Software also continued to rise.

“Public Cloud adoption in India continued to rise as enterprises preferred public cloud services for their digital transformation initiatives, application modernization, and productivity enhancements. Moreover, the increased focus on cost optimization in recent times has accelerated the move towards as-a-service consumption models, thus driving public cloud adoption. With enterprises making significant investments in next-generation technologies like GenAI, the demand for robust computing infrastructure and data management capabilities will continue to drive public cloud adoption in the upcoming years.” says Harish Krishnakumar, Senior Market Analyst, IDC India.