Balgarianovinite.com 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%). Bulgaria Records Lowest Share of Enterprises Using Paid Cloud Computing Services in EU in 2025 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-02-03 17:12:50 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law