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In 2019, SaaS made up about what share of the overall cloud computing market, ahead of IaaS and PaaS combined?

Answer43% (a plurality)

Even then, software delivered as a subscription service already led the broader cloud computing market.

Source: Wikipedia, Software as a service (2019) en.wikipedia.org

Global spending on cloud computing services, which includes SaaS, has reached about how much per year, according to IDC?

Answerabout $706 billion

Cloud spending has grown enormously as more businesses move software and infrastructure off their own servers.

Source: Wikipedia, Cloud computing (2025) en.wikipedia.org

Expert level

Gartner projected worldwide public cloud end-user spending would reach about how much by 2023?

Answerabout $600 billion

That projection reflected the rapid shift of business software and computing budgets toward the cloud.

Source: Wikipedia, Cloud computing (2023) en.wikipedia.org

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