Cloud | North America
Key Findings
Cloud computing deployment models #
About 40% of the respondents believe a single cloud deployment strategy is the right way to go.
Public cloud providers #
As far as the cloud providers used by organizations, Microsoft Azure takes the top spot with 73% of responses, closely followed by AWS at 70%.
Cloud migration priorities #
62% of respondents reported ease of management as the top factor in cloud shift, closely followed by business continuity (60%) and scalability (59%).
Tech stacks #
A wide range of choices among the technologies. With public cloud and RDBMS topping the list.
PaaS services #
57% of respondents reported using database-related PaaS services, followed by storage (51%) and DevOps (45%).
Cloud computing challenges #
56% of the respondents reported that security is still the primary challenge in cloud computing, closely followed by a lack of expertise (48%) and optimizing costs (45%).
Cloud cost management #
72% of respondents reported they employ right sizing whenever possible to lower costs.
