Partners: Demand For Cloud Services Is ‘Up Significantly’ For 2021 Solution providers that partner with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud tell CRN that they are expecting major growth in their cloud services businesses this year -- as agility and rapid scalability become a greater necessity for many customers. By Kyle Alspach, Wade Tyler Millward February 26, 2021, 01:45 PM EST Accelerating demand for cloud services is expected to generate significant growth in the category for 2021 overall, as more customers turn to the cloud to help guard against uncertainties in their businesses, solution provider executives told CRN. A growing number of customers have decided that the timing is right for transitioning to the cloud--as some of the cloud’s long-touted benefits, such as agility and scalability, become a greater business necessity than in the past, the executives said.