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The 2025 State of Cloud GTM Report

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The benchmark dataset for marketplace and co-sell: multi cloud sellers at 29% of revenue through marketplaces versus 3% for single cloud, and 92% of companies saying cloud partner attention is the hard part.

  • Respondents expect marketplace to go from 20 to 32 percent of revenue, and top performers already run 50 percent through it.
  • Multi-cloud sellers see 39 percent of deals influenced by co-sell versus 18 percent for single-cloud sellers.
  • Access to a customer's committed cloud spend is the top benefit, named by 74 percent, ahead of deal acceleration at 47 percent.
  • 92 percent still rate engaging the cloud provider itself as challenging, which is the real bottleneck.

It answers 8 questions

  1. What is a cloud marketplace and why does everyone tell us to list on AWS?
  2. How do we actually list on AWS Marketplace, and what changes in our sales process?
  3. How do I run account mapping with a partner without giving away our pipeline?
  4. Should we list on more than one cloud marketplace, or is AWS enough?
  5. How do I get real attention from AWS or Microsoft instead of just another badge?
  6. Marketplace revenue is growing but finance hates the platform fee. How do I make the case?
  7. Is ecosystem-led growth a real strategy or just a vendor's marketing?
  8. What do the top 10% of cloud marketplace sellers do that everyone else does not?

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