Further development of bridge construction, integration of bridge design – construction – maintenance, refined management of bridge operation in China put forward higher requirements for data storage, computing capacity, etc. Cloud computing is an effective measure to satisfy the demands. By means of literature retrieval, cloud computing applications in bridge engineering in recent years are summarized, including bridge health monitoring (SHM), big data and internet of things in the bridge, BIM and collaborative design based on cloud computing. The feasible focuses of future research and application are suggested.