The public cloud services market in India is projected to grow 38 percent in 2017 to total $1.81 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The highest growth will continue to be driven by infrastructure as a service which is projected to grow at 49.2 percent in 2017, followed by 33 percent in software as a service and 32.1 percent in platform as a service . The increase of SaaS and PaaS are indicators that the migration of application and workloads from on premises data centers to the cloud, as well as the development of cloud ready and cloud native applications, are fueling the growth in the cloud space.