In 2025, 52.7% of EU enterprises used paid cloud computing services (i.e. online services used to access software, computing power, storage capacity, etc.), marking a 7.4 percentage point (pp) increase compared with 2023. A more substantial increase was registered compared with 2014, when 17.8% of enterprises used paid cloud services.
The highest shares of enterprises that used paid cloud computing services in 2025 were recorded in Finland (79.2%), Italy (75.6%) and Malta (74.9%). At the other end of the scale, less than a quarter of enterprises in Romania (24.9%), Greece (24.3%) and Bulgaria (17.8%) used such paid services.
Between 2023 and 2025, the use of paid cloud computing services increased in most countries, with Lithuania (+19.7 pp), Italy (+14.2 pp) and France (+13.7 pp) experiencing the highest rise.
Source dataset: isoc_cicce_use
E-mail, office software and file storage – most popular cloud services in 2025
Data show that in 2025, most EU enterprises used paid cloud computing for e-mail services (85.2%), office software (71.7%) and file storage (71.5%). Security software applications (65.5%), finance or accounting software applications (58.2%) and hosting for the enterprise’s database (45.5%) were also popular.
Enterprises also used paid cloud service for enterprise resource planning software (30.1%), computing power to run the enterprise’s own software (28.2%), customer relationship management software (27.9%) and lastly, for computing platforms for application development, testing or deployment (26.1%).
Source dataset: isoc_cicce_use
