Community Cloud Market Report 2026

The community cloud market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $13.45 billion in 2025 to $17.07 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to need for cost sharing models, early government cloud programs, collaborative IT initiatives, regulatory compliance needs, data sharing requirements.

The community cloud market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $44.69 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.2%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to sector specific community clouds, sovereign and regulated cloud demand, enhanced interoperability frameworks, shared cybersecurity investments, sustainable IT adoption. Major trends in the forecast period include shared cloud infrastructure, collaborative data sharing, community driven cloud governance, secure multi-tenant environments, compliance focused cloud platforms.

The increasing focus on data security and regulatory compliance is expected to support the growth of the community cloud market going forward. Data security and compliance encompass the policies, technologies, and governance frameworks used to safeguard sensitive information from unauthorized access while ensuring adherence to legal, regulatory, and industry standards. The heightened emphasis on data security and compliance is influenced by rising regulatory scrutiny and growing incidents of data breaches, prompting organizations to enhance governance, implement standardized controls, and ensure lawful data handling practices. Community cloud supports data security and compliance by offering a shared, regulated cloud infrastructure designed to meet industry-specific and regulatory requirements, enabling improved oversight, consistent security controls, and compliant data management. For example, in February 2024, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, an Australia-based independent government agency, there were 890 notifiable data breach notifications recorded, with 483 reported between July and December and 407 between January and June, reflecting a 19% increase in breach notifications during the second half of 2023. Therefore, the growing emphasis on data security and regulatory compliance is contributing to the growth of the community cloud market.

Leading companies in the community cloud market are focusing on developing advanced solutions, such as community-driven private cloud platforms, to simplify private cloud deployment, reduce operational complexity, and broaden access to enterprise-grade cloud capabilities. A community-driven private cloud platform is a private cloud solution shaped and enhanced through continuous collaboration between users and developers, typically built on open-source technologies that allow organizations to deploy, operate, and scale private cloud infrastructure by leveraging shared innovation, proven best practices, and community-led governance while maintaining full control over their systems. For example, in April 2025, Platform9, a US-based cloud infrastructure management company, launched a Community Edition of its Private Cloud Director, designed to help organizations easily deploy and operate private clouds using open-source technologies. The solution enables users to build and manage private cloud environments with simplified lifecycle management, centralized control, and community-driven innovation, supporting scalable and cost-effective cloud adoption across shared user groups.

In October 2025, Salesforce, a US-based cloud software provider, partnered with OpenAI to enable trusted enterprise communities using generative artificial intelligence. Through this collaboration, OpenAI’s AI technologies were integrated into Salesforce’s Experience Cloud to improve collaboration, customer engagement, and digital commerce through intelligent automation and personalized interactions. OpenAI is a US-based artificial intelligence research organization.

Major companies operating in the community cloud market are Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Alibaba Cloud Computing Limited, Amazon Web Services Inc, Tencent Computing Limited, International Business Machines Corporation, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, Salesforce Inc, Fujitsu Limited, NEC Corporation, Inspur Group Co Ltd, ServiceNow Inc, Workday Inc, T-Systems International GmbH, OpenText Corporation, NTT Communications Corporation, Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd, Rackspace Technology Inc, Palantir Technologies Inc, Snowflake Inc, OVH Groupe SAS, DigitalOcean LLC, Scaleway SAS.

Tariffs have created both challenges and opportunities for the community cloud market by increasing costs for shared infrastructure hardware. Higher costs impact public and hybrid community deployments. Government and regulated industries are most affected. Regions reliant on imported infrastructure face pricing pressure. To mitigate these impacts, providers are optimizing shared resource utilization. Cloud-native architectures are expanding. These shifts are improving cost efficiency and collaboration.

Community cloud is a cloud computing model where infrastructure and resources are shared among multiple organizations with common interests, requirements, or objectives. It provides a collaborative environment that enables secure, scalable, and cost-effective access to computing resources and applications. It supports controlled data sharing and interoperability while maintaining privacy and regulatory compliance across participating entities.

The primary components of a community cloud consist of hardware, software, and services. Hardware denotes the physical computing infrastructure, including servers, storage solutions, and networking equipment, that enables shared cloud environments customized to meet the requirements of a specific community of organizations. Community clouds are deployed through public community cloud, private community cloud, and hybrid community cloud models and are utilized by organizations of varying sizes, such as large enterprises and small and medium enterprises. The key applications include cloud-based storage, cloud backup and recovery, cloud security and data privacy, web-based applications, and high-performance computing and analytics. The end users of community cloud solutions include banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, education, government, information technology and telecommunications, media and entertainment, transportation and logistics, and other end users.

The community cloud market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as shared cloud infrastructure hosting, secure data storage and management, collaborative application hosting, identity and access management, and compliance and regulatory support. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The community cloud market also includes sales of virtualized servers and storage solutions, security and access control tools, collaboration and communication applications, and cloud management and orchestration software. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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