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AWS Swamps GCP, Azure Among Developers in Ecosystem Report

• By David Ramel
• 10/20/2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the developer ecosystem, according to the latest State of the Developer Ecosystem report by JetBrains. The report, which surveyed more than 24,000 developers worldwide, highlights AWS's strong presence and growing adoption among developers compared to its competitors, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.

The report invites users to "See the top performers in the developer toolkit, from programming languages to cloud platforms to databases."

Regarding those cloud platforms, AWS leads the pack, followed by fellow hyperscalers GCP and Azure, tied up here, though often Azure comes in second ahead of GCP in surveys of all kinds regarding cloud computing.

"AWS maintains the largest market share," says JetBrains about its State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 report. "Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure each capture approximately one-quarter of developer usage, with regional providers maintaining notable presence in their home markets."

Here are the numbers:

• AWS: 43%
• Google Cloud Platform: 22%
• Microsoft Azure: 22%
• Alibaba Cloud: 13%
• DigitalOcean: 7%
• Huawei Cloud: 5%

"In the world of cloud services, regional providers maintain a strong presence in their home countries, showing that developers often choose cloud providers based on where they work or what's most available in their region," JetBrains said.

Securing such a numbers advantage in the cloud is a big win for the company, seeing as how server/cloud is the second-most popular application development platform among developers, trailing only behind the browser.

As far as what developers are building, websites and web services are ahead of the cloud, along with business applications.

Other Highlights

• AI is now routine in developer workflows: 85% use AI tools, 62% rely on at least one AI coding assistant or agent; nearly nine in ten save at least an hour per week and one in five saves a full workday; 68% expect AI proficiency to become a job requirement.
• Languages with strongest growth momentum in the JetBrains Language Promise Index: TypeScript (No. 1), Rust (No. 2), Python (No. 3), Go (No. 4), C++ (No. 5).
• Next languages developers want to adopt: Go 11%, Rust 10%, Python 7%, Kotlin 6%, TypeScript 6%.
• Databases: PostgreSQL edges out MySQL as most popular in 2025, with SQLite also widely used.
• Productivity rethink: Developers highlight both technical (51%) and non-technical (62%) factors as critical to performance, while 66% say current metrics fail to reflect their true contributions.
• Job market snapshot: 57% in Japan call the market favorable, while 66% in Canada call it challenging; 61% of juniors find the market challenging vs. 54% of seniors.

Methodology: "The survey ran from April to June 2025 and included 24,534 developers after data cleaning. We balanced our responses by geography, employment, programming languages, and JetBrains product use."