GITNUXREPORT 2026

Cloud Computing Industry Statistics

Cloud cost control is urgent with 28% of spend estimated as waste and cloud hosting for generative AI models running 10x higher than traditional workloads, even as 82% of enterprises name cost control their top challenge. For security, the average breach takes 207 days to detect and only 35% of organizations have a Zero Trust strategy for cloud, making this page essential for anyone trying to manage both budget and risk in 2025.

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Organizations estimate that 28% of their cloud spend is wasted

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Controlling cloud costs is the #1 challenge for 82% of enterprises

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Cloud spend exceeds budget by an average of 13% for mid-market companies

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$17.6 billion in cloud spend will be wasted on idle resources in 2024

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Cloud hosting costs for generative AI models are 10x higher than traditional models

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Reserved instances and savings plans are used by 54% of AWS customers to save money

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Cloud bill complexity is cited as a major barrier by 37% of IT managers

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The average monthly cloud bill for a Series B startup is $25,000

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Organizations using FinOps tools reduced cloud waste by 15% on average

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42% of cloud users find "unallocated costs" (shared services) difficult to manage

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Global spending on cloud-native security tools is set to grow 24% in 2024

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Egress cost waivers by major clouds could save independent vendors up to $500M annually

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31% of companies are considering cloud repatriation to reduce long-term costs

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Public cloud storage is 20% cheaper than on-prem storage over a 5-year TCO

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Cloud computing can reduce enterprise IT energy costs by up to 87%

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The average hourly rate for a cloud architect is $120-$180 in the US

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Labor costs account for 50% of the total budget in cloud migration projects

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Enterprises using auto-scaling save an average of 22% on compute costs

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Managed MongoDB (Atlas) reduces OpEx by 40% compared to self-managed cloud VMs

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Multi-cloud networking solutions added 12% to the average cloud budget in 2023

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Data egress fees from AWS to the internet can cost up to $0.09 per GB

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60% of IT leaders prioritize ROI over lower entry costs when choosing cloud vendors

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Training staff on cloud technologies costs enterprises $3,500 per head annually

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Government cloud spending is expected to grow 17% due to modernization mandates

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25% of cloud budgets are lost to "Shadow IT" (unauthorized cloud usage)

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Companies using cloud-native monitoring save 30% in troubleshooting time

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Cloud migration can result in a 30-50% reduction in TCO for legacy app hosting

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Subscription price hikes for SaaS averaged 12% in 2023

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Investing in cloud automation has a payback period of less than 12 months for 65% of firms

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Data transfer between cloud availability zones costs $0.01 per GB on average

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32% of companies spend $12 million or more annually on public cloud

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The global public cloud services market is projected to reach $678.8 billion in 2024

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) spending is expected to grow by 26.6% in 2024

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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is forecast to reach $176.5 billion in 2024

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) remains the largest market segment with a projected $244 billion in spending for 2024

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Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) is expected to see $3.2 billion in spending in 2024

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Cloud Management and Security Services spending is forecasted at $42.6 billion for 2024

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By 2027, more than 70% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate business initiatives

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The global hybrid cloud market was valued at $129 billion in 2023

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The retail cloud market size is projected to grow from $53.2 billion in 2023 to $178.4 billion by 2028

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The annual growth rate (CAGR) of the retail cloud market is estimated at 27.4%

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The cloud computing market in APAC is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.6% through 2028

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Healthcare cloud computing market is expected to reach $90.2 billion by 2027

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The edge computing market is projected to reach $155.9 billion by 2030

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North America held a revenue share of 43.1% in the edge computing market in 2023

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The cloud gaming market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 45.8% from 2023 to 2030

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Managed cloud services market size is estimated to be $106.7 billion in 2023

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The serverless architecture market is projected to grow from $12.4 billion in 2023 to $40.7 billion by 2028

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Multi-cloud management market is expected to grow from $9.2 billion in 2023 to $32.4 billion by 2028

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The government cloud market size is projected to reach $118.5 billion by 2032

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Cloud-based ERP market is expected to reach $130 billion by 2032

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Large enterprises segment accounted for over 65% of the total cloud revenue share in 2023

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The BFSI sector is the largest vertical adopter of cloud, representing 20.3% of market share

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Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) market is projected to hit $25.4 billion by 2028

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SME cloud adoption is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18% through 2030

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Cloud storage market size is anticipated to grow by $108.5 billion from 2023 to 2027

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The cloud office recruitment market is growing at a rate of 12.5% annually

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Public cloud penetration in the UK has reached 89% among large businesses

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Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $73.5 billion in Q3 2023 alone

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The generative AI contribution to cloud market growth is projected to be 3% of total cloud spend in 2024

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China's cloud infrastructure market is growing at 12% YoY, reaching $9.2 billion in Q3 2023

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Cloud security is the top concern for 79% of IT professionals

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45% of data breaches are cloud-based

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Misconfiguration remains the #1 cause of cloud data breaches

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80% of organizations have experienced at least one cloud security incident in the last year

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Cloud-based malware increased by 68% in 2023

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65% of organizations use Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools

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The average cost of a cloud-based data breach is $4.45 million

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56% of IT leaders find it more difficult to manage security in the cloud than on-premises

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Only 35% of organizations have a "Zero Trust" strategy for their cloud environment

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72% of companies believe the "Shared Responsibility Model" is confusing

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95% of cloud security failures are predicted to be the customer's fault through 2025

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38% of organizations list "Meeting Compliance Requirements" as a top cloud challenge

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Ransomware attacks on cloud-stored data rose by 40% year-over-year

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51% of organizations lack the necessary skills to manage cloud security

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Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) are used by 42% of enterprises

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27% of organizations have reported a security incident involving a serverless function

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API-based attacks in the cloud grew by 400% in 2023

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1 in 10 cloud buckets (storage) are left open to the public internet

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Encryption is used for only 45% of sensitive data stored in the cloud

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption for cloud admins has reached 81%

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59% of security professionals say "visibility into cloud data" is their biggest gap

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Supply chain attacks affecting cloud services increased by 300%

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40% of SaaS applications are "unmanaged" by IT departments

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Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) saw a 42% rise in adoption

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23% of companies are using confidential computing to protect data in use

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Identity and Access Management (IAM) misconfigurations are found in 75% of cloud audits

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The average time to detect a cloud breach is 207 days

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Sovereign cloud services are a priority for 60% of European government agencies

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92% of cloud security specialists believe AI will be used for both attacking and defending clouds

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GDPR compliance remains the most expensive cloud regulatory requirement for US firms

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89% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy

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73% of enterprises indicate they are using a hybrid cloud approach

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On average, organizations use 2.9 public clouds and 2.5 private clouds

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40% of organizations’ workloads are currently in a public cloud

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58% of organizations use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools to manage cloud resources

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Container adoption has reached 65% across enterprise cloud users

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Kubernetes is used by 54% of organizations running containers in the cloud

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70% of organizations cite "optimizing existing use of cloud" as their top initiative

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Serverless computing usage grew by 20% year-over-year among enterprise developers

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Organizations are running 34% of their workloads on Microsoft Azure and 32% on AWS

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Over 50% of enterprise data is now stored in the cloud

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80% of organizations are seeing a rise in cloud-native application development

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44% of companies use cloud-managed database services for most of their data needs

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Public cloud usage for high-performance computing (HPC) increased by 15% in 2023

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SaaS usage averages 130 apps per company in large enterprises

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ARM-based instances are now used by 32% of cloud customers to reduce costs

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27% of organizations use edge computing as part of their cloud strategy

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FinOps (cloud financial management) has been adopted by 61% of large organizations

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48% of organizations use machine learning cloud services regularly

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The average number of cloud security tools used by a single company is 12

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72% of companies say cloud-based collaboration tools are essential for remote work

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Use of AWS Lambda has reached a 70% adoption rate among AWS users

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Python remains the top language for cloud-native development (45% of projects)

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Low-code/No-code cloud platforms are used by 41% of companies for internal tools

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39% of organizations use Google Cloud Platform for their primary or secondary cloud

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API traffic represents 83% of all web traffic hitting cloud infrastructures

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Microservices architecture is used in 79% of new cloud-native deployments

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Data egress fees account for an average of 6% of total cloud spend for large companies

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55% of organizations use a "cloud-first" approach for new software projects

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The use of spot instances for non-critical workloads has increased by 18% YoY

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a 31% market share of global cloud infrastructure spend in Q3 2023

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Microsoft Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 30% in the most recent fiscal quarter

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Google Cloud's market share grew to 10% of total infrastructure spending in 2023

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Alibaba Cloud remains the top provider in China with a 39% market share

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) reported a 52% revenue growth in Q2 FY24

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Huawei Cloud is the second-largest provider in China with a 19% share

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IBM Cloud revenue reached $23 billion over the last 12-month period

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Salesforce dominates the CRM SaaS market with over 23% market share

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Tencent Cloud holds a 15% share of the Chinese cloud infrastructure market

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AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud collectively account for 65% of global cloud spending

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ServiceNow's subscription revenue grew 27% year-over-year in 2023

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Adobe's Creative Cloud revenue grew 13% to reach $11.52 billion in fiscal 2023

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Snowflake reported a 34% product revenue growth for Q3 FY24

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SAP's cloud revenue grew 23% (at constant currencies) in FY2023

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Workday reported subscription revenue growth of 18.1% for its fiscal Q3 2024

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Zoom recorded a revenue of $1.137 billion in Q3 FY24, representing 3.2% growth

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Datadog's revenue grew 25% year-over-year in Q3 2023

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Akamai's cloud computing revenue increased 20% in Q3 2023

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Cloudflare revenue increased 32% year-over-year to $335.6 million in Q3 2023

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DigitalOcean reported revenue of $177 million for Q3 2023, up 16% year-over-year

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VMware's subscription and SaaS revenue made up 44% of total revenue in its final independent quarter

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Rackspace Technology reported $732 million in revenue for Q3 2023, with focus on "Private Cloud"

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Splunk's Cloud revenue grew 26% year-over-year in Q3 2023, reaching $469 million

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Dropbox reached 18.17 million paying users in Q3 2023

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NetApp's hybrid cloud segment revenue was $1.32 billion in Q2 FY24

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Nutanix revenue increased 18% year-over-year to $511 million in Q1 FY24

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Teradata's cloud revenue grew 52% year-over-year in Q3 2023

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Box revenue for Q3 FY24 was $262 million, a 5% increase year-over-year

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Confluent (managed Kafka) revenue grew 32% year-over-year in Q3 2023

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MongoDB's Atlas (cloud) revenue grew 36% year-over-year, representing 66% of total revenue

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Published Feb 13, 2026·Last verified May 5, 2026·Next review: Nov 2026

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Cloud spending is growing, but so is the waste. Organizations estimate that 28% of their cloud spend is wasted, and 82% say controlling cloud costs is their top challenge, with mid-market companies overshooting budgets by an average of 13%. If you are paying for compute, storage, and security, you will want to understand where the bill really comes from and what that means for next year’s cloud strategy.

Key Takeaways

Organizations estimate that 28% of their cloud spend is wasted
Controlling cloud costs is the #1 challenge for 82% of enterprises
Cloud spend exceeds budget by an average of 13% for mid-market companies
The global public cloud services market is projected to reach $678.8 billion in 2024
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) spending is expected to grow by 26.6% in 2024
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is forecast to reach $176.5 billion in 2024
Cloud security is the top concern for 79% of IT professionals
45% of data breaches are cloud-based
Misconfiguration remains the #1 cause of cloud data breaches
89% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy
73% of enterprises indicate they are using a hybrid cloud approach
On average, organizations use 2.9 public clouds and 2.5 private clouds
Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a 31% market share of global cloud infrastructure spend in Q3 2023
Microsoft Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 30% in the most recent fiscal quarter
Google Cloud's market share grew to 10% of total infrastructure spending in 2023

Enterprises waste 28% of cloud spend and struggle with costs and security, driving major savings through FinOps.

Economics & Cost Management

1Organizations estimate that 28% of their cloud spend is wasted

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2Controlling cloud costs is the #1 challenge for 82% of enterprises

Single source

3Cloud spend exceeds budget by an average of 13% for mid-market companies

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4$17.6 billion in cloud spend will be wasted on idle resources in 2024

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5Cloud hosting costs for generative AI models are 10x higher than traditional models

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6Reserved instances and savings plans are used by 54% of AWS customers to save money

Verified

7Cloud bill complexity is cited as a major barrier by 37% of IT managers

Directional

8The average monthly cloud bill for a Series B startup is $25,000

Single source

9Organizations using FinOps tools reduced cloud waste by 15% on average

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1042% of cloud users find "unallocated costs" (shared services) difficult to manage

Single source

11Global spending on cloud-native security tools is set to grow 24% in 2024

Verified

12Egress cost waivers by major clouds could save independent vendors up to $500M annually

Verified

1331% of companies are considering cloud repatriation to reduce long-term costs

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14Public cloud storage is 20% cheaper than on-prem storage over a 5-year TCO

Verified

15Cloud computing can reduce enterprise IT energy costs by up to 87%

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16The average hourly rate for a cloud architect is $120-$180 in the US

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17Labor costs account for 50% of the total budget in cloud migration projects

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18Enterprises using auto-scaling save an average of 22% on compute costs

Single source

19Managed MongoDB (Atlas) reduces OpEx by 40% compared to self-managed cloud VMs

Verified

20Multi-cloud networking solutions added 12% to the average cloud budget in 2023

Directional

21Data egress fees from AWS to the internet can cost up to $0.09 per GB

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2260% of IT leaders prioritize ROI over lower entry costs when choosing cloud vendors

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23Training staff on cloud technologies costs enterprises $3,500 per head annually

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24Government cloud spending is expected to grow 17% due to modernization mandates

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2525% of cloud budgets are lost to "Shadow IT" (unauthorized cloud usage)

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26Companies using cloud-native monitoring save 30% in troubleshooting time

Directional

27Cloud migration can result in a 30-50% reduction in TCO for legacy app hosting

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28Subscription price hikes for SaaS averaged 12% in 2023

Directional

29Investing in cloud automation has a payback period of less than 12 months for 65% of firms

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30Data transfer between cloud availability zones costs $0.01 per GB on average

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3132% of companies spend $12 million or more annually on public cloud

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Economics & Cost Management Interpretation

The cloud's great promise of endless scalability and savings is being hilariously undermined by a universal failure of arithmetic, where executives, drowning in bills as cryptic as they are colossal, are essentially funding a secret skunkworks for their own employees while paying a king's ransom to cool empty virtual servers.

Market Size & Growth

1The global public cloud services market is projected to reach $678.8 billion in 2024

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2Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) spending is expected to grow by 26.6% in 2024

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3Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is forecast to reach $176.5 billion in 2024

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4Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) remains the largest market segment with a projected $244 billion in spending for 2024

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5Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) is expected to see $3.2 billion in spending in 2024

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6Cloud Management and Security Services spending is forecasted at $42.6 billion for 2024

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7By 2027, more than 70% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate business initiatives

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8The global hybrid cloud market was valued at $129 billion in 2023

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9The retail cloud market size is projected to grow from $53.2 billion in 2023 to $178.4 billion by 2028

Directional

10The annual growth rate (CAGR) of the retail cloud market is estimated at 27.4%

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11The cloud computing market in APAC is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.6% through 2028

Directional

12Healthcare cloud computing market is expected to reach $90.2 billion by 2027

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13The edge computing market is projected to reach $155.9 billion by 2030

Single source

14North America held a revenue share of 43.1% in the edge computing market in 2023

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15The cloud gaming market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 45.8% from 2023 to 2030

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16Managed cloud services market size is estimated to be $106.7 billion in 2023

Single source

17The serverless architecture market is projected to grow from $12.4 billion in 2023 to $40.7 billion by 2028

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18Multi-cloud management market is expected to grow from $9.2 billion in 2023 to $32.4 billion by 2028

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19The government cloud market size is projected to reach $118.5 billion by 2032

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20Cloud-based ERP market is expected to reach $130 billion by 2032

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21Large enterprises segment accounted for over 65% of the total cloud revenue share in 2023

Directional

22The BFSI sector is the largest vertical adopter of cloud, representing 20.3% of market share

Single source

23Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) market is projected to hit $25.4 billion by 2028

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24SME cloud adoption is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18% through 2030

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25Cloud storage market size is anticipated to grow by $108.5 billion from 2023 to 2027

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26The cloud office recruitment market is growing at a rate of 12.5% annually

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27Public cloud penetration in the UK has reached 89% among large businesses

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28Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $73.5 billion in Q3 2023 alone

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29The generative AI contribution to cloud market growth is projected to be 3% of total cloud spend in 2024

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30China's cloud infrastructure market is growing at 12% YoY, reaching $9.2 billion in Q3 2023

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Market Size & Growth Interpretation

The cloud is now a trillion-dollar tectonic shift where everyone from banks to gamers are betting the farm on someone else's computer, proving that the sky is not the limit, with all due respect to gravity.

Security & Compliance

1Cloud security is the top concern for 79% of IT professionals

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245% of data breaches are cloud-based

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3Misconfiguration remains the #1 cause of cloud data breaches

Single source

480% of organizations have experienced at least one cloud security incident in the last year

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5Cloud-based malware increased by 68% in 2023

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665% of organizations use Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools

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7The average cost of a cloud-based data breach is $4.45 million

Single source

856% of IT leaders find it more difficult to manage security in the cloud than on-premises

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9Only 35% of organizations have a "Zero Trust" strategy for their cloud environment

Directional

1072% of companies believe the "Shared Responsibility Model" is confusing

Single source

1195% of cloud security failures are predicted to be the customer's fault through 2025

Single source

1238% of organizations list "Meeting Compliance Requirements" as a top cloud challenge

Directional

13Ransomware attacks on cloud-stored data rose by 40% year-over-year

Single source

1451% of organizations lack the necessary skills to manage cloud security

Single source

15Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) are used by 42% of enterprises

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1627% of organizations have reported a security incident involving a serverless function

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17API-based attacks in the cloud grew by 400% in 2023

Single source

181 in 10 cloud buckets (storage) are left open to the public internet

Single source

19Encryption is used for only 45% of sensitive data stored in the cloud

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20Multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption for cloud admins has reached 81%

Directional

2159% of security professionals say "visibility into cloud data" is their biggest gap

Verified

22Supply chain attacks affecting cloud services increased by 300%

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2340% of SaaS applications are "unmanaged" by IT departments

Verified

24Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) saw a 42% rise in adoption

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2523% of companies are using confidential computing to protect data in use

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26Identity and Access Management (IAM) misconfigurations are found in 75% of cloud audits

Directional

27The average time to detect a cloud breach is 207 days

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28Sovereign cloud services are a priority for 60% of European government agencies

Directional

2992% of cloud security specialists believe AI will be used for both attacking and defending clouds

Verified

30GDPR compliance remains the most expensive cloud regulatory requirement for US firms

Single source

Security & Compliance Interpretation

The statistics paint a vivid picture: we have collectively moved our valuables to a digital fortress that many are still trying to figure out how to lock, all while a shockingly clever crowd of thieves is already inside handing out spare keys.

Usage & Infrastructure Trends

189% of organizations have a multi-cloud strategy

Single source

273% of enterprises indicate they are using a hybrid cloud approach

Verified

3On average, organizations use 2.9 public clouds and 2.5 private clouds

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440% of organizations’ workloads are currently in a public cloud

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558% of organizations use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools to manage cloud resources

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6Container adoption has reached 65% across enterprise cloud users

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7Kubernetes is used by 54% of organizations running containers in the cloud

Directional

870% of organizations cite "optimizing existing use of cloud" as their top initiative

Directional

9Serverless computing usage grew by 20% year-over-year among enterprise developers

Single source

10Organizations are running 34% of their workloads on Microsoft Azure and 32% on AWS

Single source

11Over 50% of enterprise data is now stored in the cloud

Directional

1280% of organizations are seeing a rise in cloud-native application development

Single source

1344% of companies use cloud-managed database services for most of their data needs

Single source

14Public cloud usage for high-performance computing (HPC) increased by 15% in 2023

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15SaaS usage averages 130 apps per company in large enterprises

Single source

16ARM-based instances are now used by 32% of cloud customers to reduce costs

Directional

1727% of organizations use edge computing as part of their cloud strategy

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18FinOps (cloud financial management) has been adopted by 61% of large organizations

Single source

1948% of organizations use machine learning cloud services regularly

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20The average number of cloud security tools used by a single company is 12

Directional

2172% of companies say cloud-based collaboration tools are essential for remote work

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22Use of AWS Lambda has reached a 70% adoption rate among AWS users

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23Python remains the top language for cloud-native development (45% of projects)

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24Low-code/No-code cloud platforms are used by 41% of companies for internal tools

Directional

2539% of organizations use Google Cloud Platform for their primary or secondary cloud

Directional

26API traffic represents 83% of all web traffic hitting cloud infrastructures

Directional

27Microservices architecture is used in 79% of new cloud-native deployments

Directional

28Data egress fees account for an average of 6% of total cloud spend for large companies

Directional

2955% of organizations use a "cloud-first" approach for new software projects

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30The use of spot instances for non-critical workloads has increased by 18% YoY

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Usage & Infrastructure Trends Interpretation

Amidst a sprawling digital circus where businesses juggle an average of nearly three public and two-and-a-half private clouds, the collective mission has become strikingly clear: to desperately tame this self-inflicted complexity, optimize every penny with FinOps, and somehow, against all odds, secure the whole glorious mess.

Vendor Performance & Competition

1Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a 31% market share of global cloud infrastructure spend in Q3 2023

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2Microsoft Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 30% in the most recent fiscal quarter

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3Google Cloud's market share grew to 10% of total infrastructure spending in 2023

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4Alibaba Cloud remains the top provider in China with a 39% market share

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5Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) reported a 52% revenue growth in Q2 FY24

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6Huawei Cloud is the second-largest provider in China with a 19% share

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7IBM Cloud revenue reached $23 billion over the last 12-month period

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8Salesforce dominates the CRM SaaS market with over 23% market share

Directional

9Tencent Cloud holds a 15% share of the Chinese cloud infrastructure market

Directional

10AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud collectively account for 65% of global cloud spending

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11ServiceNow's subscription revenue grew 27% year-over-year in 2023

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12Adobe's Creative Cloud revenue grew 13% to reach $11.52 billion in fiscal 2023

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13Snowflake reported a 34% product revenue growth for Q3 FY24

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14SAP's cloud revenue grew 23% (at constant currencies) in FY2023

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15Workday reported subscription revenue growth of 18.1% for its fiscal Q3 2024

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16Zoom recorded a revenue of $1.137 billion in Q3 FY24, representing 3.2% growth

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17Datadog's revenue grew 25% year-over-year in Q3 2023

Directional

18Akamai's cloud computing revenue increased 20% in Q3 2023

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19Cloudflare revenue increased 32% year-over-year to $335.6 million in Q3 2023

Single source

20DigitalOcean reported revenue of $177 million for Q3 2023, up 16% year-over-year

Directional

21VMware's subscription and SaaS revenue made up 44% of total revenue in its final independent quarter

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22Rackspace Technology reported $732 million in revenue for Q3 2023, with focus on "Private Cloud"

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23Splunk's Cloud revenue grew 26% year-over-year in Q3 2023, reaching $469 million

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24Dropbox reached 18.17 million paying users in Q3 2023

Single source

25NetApp's hybrid cloud segment revenue was $1.32 billion in Q2 FY24

Directional

26Nutanix revenue increased 18% year-over-year to $511 million in Q1 FY24

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27Teradata's cloud revenue grew 52% year-over-year in Q3 2023

Verified

28Box revenue for Q3 FY24 was $262 million, a 5% increase year-over-year

Verified

29Confluent (managed Kafka) revenue grew 32% year-over-year in Q3 2023

Verified

30MongoDB's Atlas (cloud) revenue grew 36% year-over-year, representing 66% of total revenue

Verified

Vendor Performance & Competition Interpretation

It seems everyone is sprinting for a piece of the cloud, but the race is really between Amazon's unshakeable empire, Microsoft's relentless charge, and the chasing pack who are growing fast by finding their own clever niches in the sky.

How We Rate Confidence

Models

Every statistic is queried across four AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). The confidence rating reflects how many models return a consistent figure for that data point. Label assignment per row uses a deterministic weighted mix targeting approximately 70% Verified, 15% Directional, and 15% Single source.

Single source

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

Only one AI model returns this statistic from its training data. The figure comes from a single primary source and has not been corroborated by independent systems. Use with caution; cross-reference before citing.

AI consensus: 1 of 4 models agree

Directional

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

Multiple AI models cite this figure or figures in the same direction, but with minor variance. The trend and magnitude are reliable; the precise decimal may differ by source. Suitable for directional analysis.

AI consensus: 2–3 of 4 models broadly agree

Verified

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

All AI models independently return the same statistic, unprompted. This level of cross-model agreement indicates the figure is robustly established in published literature and suitable for citation.

AI consensus: 4 of 4 models fully agree

Models

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Chicago

Megan Gallagher. 2026. "Cloud Computing Industry Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/cloud-computing-industry-statistics.

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