site.btaBulgaria Records Lowest Share of Enterprises Using Paid Cloud Computing Services in EU in 2025

Bulgaria recorded the lowest share of enterprises using paid cloud computing services among European Union Member States last year, Eurostat reported on Tuesday.

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.

In Bulgaria, only 17.8% of enterprises used paid cloud computing services in 2025, compared with 17.5% in 2023 and just 7.7% in 2014.

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. 

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%).