Google Is Closing the Cloud Gap With Amazon, Microsoft — Heard on the Street

Google Is Closing the Cloud Gap With Amazon, Microsoft — Heard on the Street

By Dan Gallagher
Publication Date: 2026-04-30 18:58:00

Google is still technically third place in the cloud. But it’s now a not-so-distant third, and that is telling.
First-quarter results from parent company Alphabet late Wednesday showed Google’s cloud computing arm [driving particularly strong growth](https://www.wsj.com/tech/alphabet-earnings-q1-20