By 2025, worldwide public cloud end user spending is forecast to reach $832.1 billion, while Gartner expects IT spending to total $5.2 trillion in 2024 and cloud infrastructure services to keep accelerating. At the same time, security signals are getting sharper, from bot mitigation and phishing credential compromise to the shift toward platform engineering and AI augmented development. This post pulls those threads together so you can see how budgeting, delivery practices, and risk management are moving at the same pace.
Key Takeaways
- Global public cloud services market reached $699.8 billion in 2024 (forecast by Gartner).
- Worldwide public cloud end-user spending is forecast to reach $832.1 billion in 2025 (Gartner).
- Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending to total $5.2 trillion in 2024.
- In a 2023 global survey by Kaspersky, 39% of organizations said they were targets of phishing attacks in the past 12 months.
- The U.S. EIA projects U.S. electricity generation from renewable sources will reach about 20% by 2026 in its Annual Energy Outlook 2024 reference case.
- In 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reported that refund/chargeback disputes involving online accounts increased by 21% year over year (payment protection trend statistic).
- Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of organizations will have adopted at least one form of platform engineering or modern software delivery practices.
- The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-61 recommends incident response playbooks can reduce the time to detect and respond by enabling faster execution (time reduction reported in case studies).
- A 2022 peer-reviewed paper in IEEE Access found that containerization can reduce deployment time by up to 70% compared with traditional deployment methods.
- 59% of organizations reported measuring lead time for changes as a key software delivery metric in 2024 (DORA lead time measurement share).
- In a Gartner survey, 74% of enterprise buyers said they have increased spending on cybersecurity in the past 12 months (2023).
- In a 2024 Microsoft survey, 78% of organizations said they are using AI to improve productivity.
- OpenAI’s model adoption as of 2024 includes usage by hundreds of thousands of developers via the API (as reported in OpenAI transparency updates).
- 50% of worldwide breaches in 2023 involved a web application as an attack surface, per a Verizon DBIR 2024 analysis of attack surface categories (web application share).
- 1.8 million new malware samples were detected per day on average in 2023 (daily new malware samples average).
Cloud, cybersecurity, and AI are accelerating fast, with rising spending, threats, and security automation.
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Market Size
1Global public cloud services market reached $699.8 billion in 2024 (forecast by Gartner).[1]
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2Worldwide public cloud end-user spending is forecast to reach $832.1 billion in 2025 (Gartner).[2]
Directional
3Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending to total $5.2 trillion in 2024.[3]
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4According to IDC, the worldwide public cloud infrastructure services market is expected to grow from $228.9 billion in 2021 to $482.1 billion in 2026.[4]
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5According to IDC, the worldwide public cloud infrastructure services market will reach $301.4 billion in 2023.[5]
Directional
6According to Canalys, cloud infrastructure services revenue grew 19% year over year in Q1 2024.[6]
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7According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. total electricity consumption was about 4,352 billion kWh in 2023.[7]
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Market Size Interpretation
The market size evidence shows public cloud is scaling fast, with Gartner projecting global public cloud services at $699.8 billion in 2024 and worldwide public cloud end-user spending rising to $832.1 billion in 2025, while IDC forecasts public cloud infrastructure services growing from $228.9 billion in 2021 to $482.1 billion by 2026.
Industry Trends
1In a 2023 global survey by Kaspersky, 39% of organizations said they were targets of phishing attacks in the past 12 months.[8]
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2The U.S. EIA projects U.S. electricity generation from renewable sources will reach about 20% by 2026 in its Annual Energy Outlook 2024 reference case.[9]
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3In 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reported that refund/chargeback disputes involving online accounts increased by 21% year over year (payment protection trend statistic).[10]
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4In the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that phishing remains one of the top threats, with 50%+ of incidents tied to credential compromise (2023 trend).[11]
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5ENISA reported that ransomware attacks increased significantly across 2023 compared with 2022 in multiple EU contexts (trend metric).[12]
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6In its 2024 Risk Report, Allianz reported that 67% of companies experienced cyber incidents in the past 12 months.[13]
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7In ISO Survey 2022, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 was among the top management system standards with the largest certification growth rates.[14]
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8According to a 2023 Gartner survey, 61% of organizations planned to increase investment in data quality and governance.[15]
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9According to Gartner, 75% of organizations will use AI-augmented development tools by 2025 (prediction).[16]
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10According to Gartner, by 2026, 80% of cloud workloads will be protected by an integrated security platform.[17]
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Industry Trends Interpretation
Across industry trends, the data shows cyber risk is intensifying and becoming more central to business operations, with phishing impacting 39% of organizations over the past 12 months and cyber incidents reported by 67% of companies, while governance and security tooling are set to scale as 80% of cloud workloads are expected to be protected by an integrated platform by 2026.
Cost Analysis
1Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of organizations will have adopted at least one form of platform engineering or modern software delivery practices.[18]
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Cost Analysis Interpretation
Gartner’s forecast that 70% of organizations will adopt at least one form of platform engineering or modern software delivery practices by 2025 highlights a major cost analysis trend as businesses increasingly invest in approaches that can reshape delivery efficiency and operating expenses.
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Performance Metrics
1The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-61 recommends incident response playbooks can reduce the time to detect and respond by enabling faster execution (time reduction reported in case studies).[19]
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2A 2022 peer-reviewed paper in IEEE Access found that containerization can reduce deployment time by up to 70% compared with traditional deployment methods.[20]
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359% of organizations reported measuring lead time for changes as a key software delivery metric in 2024 (DORA lead time measurement share).[21]
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Performance Metrics Interpretation
Performance metrics are showing clear momentum with lead time becoming a measured priority for 59% of organizations in 2024, while evidence from NIST incident response playbooks and containerization studies suggests that faster detection, response, and deployment can materially cut turnaround times.
User Adoption
1In a Gartner survey, 74% of enterprise buyers said they have increased spending on cybersecurity in the past 12 months (2023).[22]
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2In a 2024 Microsoft survey, 78% of organizations said they are using AI to improve productivity.[23]
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3OpenAI’s model adoption as of 2024 includes usage by hundreds of thousands of developers via the API (as reported in OpenAI transparency updates).[24]
Directional
464% of surveyed organizations said they use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in production environments in 2023 (IaC production adoption share).[25]
Single source
566% of organizations reported that they use SBOMs (software bill of materials) for security and compliance in 2024 (SBOM usage share).[26]
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641% of organizations said they will adopt passkeys for authentication in 2024 (passkey adoption/rollout intention share).[27]
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User Adoption Interpretation
User adoption in cybersecurity and development is accelerating across the board, with 74% of enterprise buyers increasing security spending over the past 12 months, 78% of organizations using AI for productivity, and major shares already operationalizing practices like IaC (64%) and SBOMs (66%).
Security Risk
150% of worldwide breaches in 2023 involved a web application as an attack surface, per a Verizon DBIR 2024 analysis of attack surface categories (web application share).[28]
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21.8 million new malware samples were detected per day on average in 2023 (daily new malware samples average).[29]
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354% of respondents said they use threat modeling for new software or major changes at least monthly (threat modeling frequency share).[30]
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40.01% of enterprise login attempts were blocked by bot mitigation controls in 2024 (bot mitigation blocked attempt rate).[31]
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Security Risk Interpretation
For the Security Risk category, the biggest takeaway is that web applications remain a dominant attack surface with 50% of 2023 worldwide breaches involving them, while the threat landscape is also rapidly expanding with 1.8 million new malware samples detected each day.
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