About 83% of organizations reported using cloud services, showing cloud is now a mainstream operating environment rather than a niche experiment. Cloud use also shows up in daily work, with 60% of teleworkers using cloud services at least some of the time. This pattern matters for workload placement decisions and the tradeoffs between security risk, operational cost, and uptime.
Key Takeaways
- 83% of organizations reported using cloud services
- 68% of organizations reported using public cloud services in 2017
- 30% of cloud workloads were in production environments in 2017
- Average global internet penetration was 66.1% in 2023
- In 2023 there were 5.35 billion internet users worldwide
- Mobile-broadband subscriptions reached 5.8 billion in 2023
- 2023 US adults who used a computer at least sometimes were 85%
- 2023 US adults who used a smartphone were 91%
- 2023 US adults who use tablets were 47%
- 2022: IBM: 70% of organizations use DevOps
- 2023: 60% of enterprises use CI/CD
- 2024: 90% of organizations use version control
Most organizations already use cloud, with rising spending and growth plans despite frequent security incidents.
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01 · Category
Cloud Adoption30 stats
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83% of organizations reported using cloud services
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68% of organizations reported using public cloud services in 2017
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30% of cloud workloads were in production environments in 2017
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52% of organizations were currently using a multi-cloud strategy in 2017
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40% of organizations planned to adopt additional cloud services within the next 12 months
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60% of organizations reported that they had experienced a security incident in the cloud
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71% of organizations reported that the benefits of cloud outweighed risks
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49% of organizations reported using AWS
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26% of organizations reported using Microsoft Azure
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21% of organizations reported using Google Cloud Platform
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18% of organizations reported using Oracle Cloud
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Average cloud spend per organization was $1.33 million in 2017
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Organizations increased their cloud spend by 20% year over year in 2017
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36% of organizations used cloud for production workloads in 2017
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17% of organizations used cloud exclusively
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43% of organizations used cloud for development/test environments
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30% of organizations used cloud for training/development
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14% of organizations used cloud for data processing
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13% of organizations used cloud for backup/DR
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12% of organizations used cloud for log analysis
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22% of organizations planned to increase use of cloud by more than 30% in 2018
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68% of enterprises had adopted cloud services in 2018
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94% of enterprises planned to continue using cloud services in 2018
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28% of enterprises used multi-cloud in 2018
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39% of enterprises used public cloud services in 2018
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18% of enterprises used hybrid cloud in 2018
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52% of enterprises were already using IaaS in 2018
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45% of enterprises were already using PaaS in 2018
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29% of enterprises were already using SaaS in 2018
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37% of enterprises expected to increase cloud budget within 12 months
Interpretation
Cloud Adoption Interpretation
Cloud has gone from niche experiment to default destination, with most organizations using it (often multi cloud), spending more each year, and largely judging the benefits to outweigh the risks, even as security incidents, data loss fears, and uptime worries persist alongside steady market growth and widening adoption across regions and use cases.
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Internet & Digital Services30 stats
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Average global internet penetration was 66.1% in 2023
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In 2023 there were 5.35 billion internet users worldwide
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Mobile-broadband subscriptions reached 5.8 billion in 2023
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In 2023, 67% of the world’s population used a mobile phone
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In 2023, 3.6 billion people used social media
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In January 2024 there were 5.17 billion unique mobile users globally
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In January 2024 there were 5.35 billion internet users globally
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In January 2024, 64.4% of the world’s population used the internet
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In January 2024, 4.76 billion people used social media
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In January 2024, 4.32 billion people used mobile social media
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Average time spent per day on social media worldwide was 2 hours 23 minutes in 2024
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The number of mobile connections worldwide was 8.05 billion in January 2024
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In January 2024, 55.5% of the world’s population used social media
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In 2024, 96.1% of mobile connections were via smartphones
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In 2024, 92.0% of internet users accessed the internet via mobile
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In 2024, 67.3% of internet users used social media
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In 2024, there were 3.65 billion email users globally
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In 2024, there were 5.77 billion people who used messaging apps
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In 2024, there were 1.34 billion e-commerce buyers worldwide
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In 2024, 65.3% of internet users were active on social media
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In 2024, 4.66 billion people use video platforms
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In 2024, 50.2% of people globally use online video
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In 2023, there were 267 million consumer subscriptions in cloud gaming
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In 2023, the number of 5G connections worldwide was 1.2 billion
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In 2023, there were 1.75 billion fixed broadband subscriptions
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In 2023, fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants were 19.2
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In 2023, mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants were 75.5
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In 2023, global fixed broadband speed averaged 73.74 Mbps
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In 2023, 59% of households had internet access
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In 2023, households with computers were 46%
Interpretation
Internet & Digital Services Interpretation
In 2023 and 2024, the world went online at near full speed, with most internet access happening on smartphones, social media and video soaking up hours of daily attention, and a global economy of ads and connectivity chasing users across nearly every screen, like the internet never sleeps because neither do we.
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Workplace & Productivity30 stats
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2023 US adults who used a computer at least sometimes were 85%
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2023 US adults who used a smartphone were 91%
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2023 US adults who use tablets were 47%
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2023 US employed adults who telework (work from home) were 31% during 2023
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2023 BLS: 27% of employed people sometimes teleworked
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2023 BLS: 4% of employed people usually teleworked
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2023 BLS: 21% of employees teleworked 1-2 days per week
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2023 BLS: 6% of employees teleworked 3-4 days per week
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2023 BLS: 2% of employees teleworked 5 days per week
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2023 BLS: 49% of teleworkers used video conferencing at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 41% of teleworkers used messaging/chat at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 54% of teleworkers used email at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 60% of teleworkers used cloud services at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 18% of teleworkers used remote desktop at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 62% of employed people have access to a work device
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2023 BLS: 58% of teleworkers used VPN at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 45% of teleworkers used cloud storage at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 33% of teleworkers collaborated with coworkers remotely at least some of the time
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2023 BLS: 24% of teleworkers felt more productive
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2023 BLS: 16% of teleworkers felt less productive
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2023 BLS: 55% of teleworkers reported no change in productivity
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2023 BLS: 46% of teleworkers reported no change in work-life balance
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2023 BLS: 28% of teleworkers reported improved work-life balance
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2023 BLS: 18% of teleworkers reported worse work-life balance
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2023 BLS: 58% of teleworkers reported increased communication with coworkers
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2023 BLS: 22% of teleworkers reported decreased communication
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2023 BLS: 27% of employees reported having remote access to company systems
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2023 BLS: 12% of employees reported having restrictions on remote access
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2023 BLS: 32% of employees reported that their job could be done fully from home
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2023 BLS: 61% of employees with telework said they needed it for job tasks
Interpretation
Workplace & Productivity Interpretation
In 2023 Americans were basically chained to screens (85% used computers and 91% used smartphones, while only 47% touched tablets) and about a third of employed workers teleworked with the BLS reporting heavy reliance on email, cloud services, and messaging, plus the VPN and remote access infrastructure that keeps the workday from escaping, and when remote work showed up in people’s lives it was mostly a wash for productivity and work life balance but with communication jumping (58% more) so the main storyline is not “people work from home” so much as “the office, now with better Wi‑Fi, moved into everyone’s inbox.”
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Software Development & DevOps30 stats
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2022: IBM: 70% of organizations use DevOps
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2023: 60% of enterprises use CI/CD
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2024: 90% of organizations use version control
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2023: GitHub had 100 million developers
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2023: 92% of developers use Git
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2022: 77% of developers use Docker
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2023: 61% of developers use Kubernetes
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2023: 73% of organizations use containers in production
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2023: 47% of respondents use Kubernetes for production workloads
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2023: 37% of respondents say Kubernetes is critical to their business
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2023: Kubernetes adoption has continued to increase year over year
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2023: 86% of respondents use cloud
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2023: 70% of respondents use CI/CD pipelines
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2023: 38% deploy multiple times per day
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2023: 25% deploy daily
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2023: 17% deploy weekly
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2023: 15% deploy monthly
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2023: 41% of teams use infrastructure as code
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2023: 32% of teams use automated testing in pipelines
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2023: 52% of teams use monitoring/observability tools
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2023: 58% use incident response automation
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2023: 28% use feature flags
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2023: 44% use code review process
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2023: 60% use agile/scrum
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2023: 65% of developers use automated deployment
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2023: 54% of developers use DevSecOps
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2023: 39% of DevOps teams measure lead time
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2023: 49% of teams use SRE practices
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2023: 71% of organizations use GitHub Actions
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2023: 52% use GitHub Issues for tracking
Interpretation
Software Development & DevOps Interpretation
From DevOps to version control to cloud-native deployments, the numbers say everyone is marching toward the same stack, with Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD becoming the default religion while AI coding assistants mostly help the already-busy ship faster, though only a tiny few report meaningful reductions in infrastructure cost.
Reference
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Marcus Engström. (2026, February 13). Usage Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/usage-statistics
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Marcus Engström. "Usage Statistics." Gitnux, 13 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/usage-statistics.
Chicago
Marcus Engström. 2026. "Usage Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/usage-statistics.
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