North America Cloud Block Storage Market Size and Forecast by Type, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Subscription Model, Industry, Use Case, and Country: 2019-2033

North America Cloud Block Storage Market Outlook

The North America cloud block storage market is witnessing a rapid evolution, forecasted to surpass US$ XX.5 billion by 2033, underpinned by the region’s aggressive digital transformation, AI adoption, and need for resilient, high-performance infrastructure.

As per David Gomes, Manager – IT, the surge in enterprise workloads—especially AI/ML pipelines, containerized applications, and real-time databases—is pushing organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico toward low-latency, high-throughput block storage that can scale elastically across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This article outlines key drivers shaping the market, real-world deployments, and what B2B leaders need to prioritize for long-term storage strategy alignment

At the heart of this momentum is block storage superior performance profile—its ability to deliver consistent IOPS and low-latency access to persistent volumes makes it the cornerstone for AI training, transactional systems, and mission-critical databases.

Among North America, the US market leads this evolution, driven by a paradigm shift from legacy SANs to cloud-native block offerings like AWS EBS io2 Block Express, Azure Managed Disks, and Google Cloud Persistent Disks. These solutions now routinely support GPU-intensive workloads, real-time analytics, and sub-millisecond latency demands across sectors like finance, health tech, and manufacturing

In parallel, Canadian enterprises are rapidly embracing cloud block storage to modernize ERP systems, high-frequency transaction platforms, and virtual machine-based infrastructures. The availability of provisioned IOPS SSDs and zonally redundant volumes through hyperscale’s has enabled regional businesses to meet stringent disaster recovery and data locality requirements.

Canada growing appetite for container orchestration via Kubernetes is also accelerating adoption of tiered and policy-based block volumes that align with PIPEDA and Quebec’s Law 25 data residency mandates. For instance, AWS’s expansion of its EBS offerings across Montreal and Calgary availability zones has directly supported compliance-driven digital transformation in healthcare and public sectors

Meanwhile, in Mexico, cloud maturity is climbing rapidly due to aggressive hyperscale expansion and strategic public-private alliances. Oracle’s integration with Telmex offers a notable example of localized, telco-delivered block storage supporting ultra-fast access for transactional applications such as digital banking, ERP, and customer platforms.

Enterprises in cities like Monterrey and Guadalajara are leveraging block storage in dynamic CI/CD pipelines and microservices architectures to enable faster deployments and higher availability. The operationalization of AWS Mexico Region in Q1 2025 has further elevated regional capabilities, offering purpose-built block volumes for compute-intensive workloads such as risk modeling and payment processing

Across all three markets, compliance and data sovereignty are non-negotiable. From SOX and HIPAA in the U.S. to FIPPA in Canada and government mandates in Mexico, businesses are prioritizing vendors offering encrypted, auditable, and immutable block volumes. The rise of immutable snapshots and automated backup policies illustrates how compliance is now deeply integrated into the block storage fabric, especially in sectors like legal, healthcare, and government

Technological innovation is amplifying performance and operational agility. NVMe-over-Fabric (NVMe-oF), zonal replication, thin provisioning, and programmable APIs are redefining how storage is managed and consumed. U.S.-based Lightbits Labs, for example, raised $75 million in 2025 to scale its NVMe/TCP disaggregated storage offerings, targeting bottlenecks in fintech and ecommerce environments.

Similarly, NetApp’s integration with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on AWS and Azure demonstrates how storage-compute convergence is delivering enterprise-grade SLAs like 99.99% uptime and rapid volume cloning for virtualized workloads

Container-native storage solutions such as Portworx by Pure Storage and Quantum’s orchestration tools are empowering DevOps teams to dynamically manage persistent volumes across hybrid environments with zero downtime. These tools are essential for managing stateful microservices, ensuring SLA consistency, and optimizing performance at the orchestration layer

Looking ahead, the success of cloud block storage providers in North America will hinge on their ability to deliver software-defined automation, AI-optimized throughput, and robust security features like AES-256 encryption and zero-trust access controls.

Authors: David Gomes (Manager - IT)

*Research Methodology: This report is based on DataCube’s proprietary 3-stage forecasting model, combining primary research, secondary data triangulation, and expert validation. [Learn more]