Organizations are massively embracing a multicloud strategy: more than 80 percent spread workloads across multiple public (and private) clouds.
In its State of the Cloud report, Flexera examines the public cloud sector. The report shows, among other things, that AWS remains the largest cloud provider and that companies spend up to millions of dollars per year on public cloud services with hyperscalers. Flexera speaks of a tipping point in cloud adoption: more than half of all workloads worldwide now run in the public cloud.
Companies generally don’t spend that budget on a single provider. There is a clear trend towards a multicloud strategy; an evolution that has been ongoing for several years. 86 percent of the companies surveyed by Flexera spread workloads across multiple clouds. Only twelve percent use a single public cloud provider while two percent are entirely in a private cloud.
More Hybrid, No Repatriation
Among the large group of multicloud companies, a hybrid strategy is the norm. Seventy percent spread workloads across private and public clouds. 14 percent employ a multicloud strategy that includes multiple public cloud providers. A multicloud with multiple private clouds is rather rare and occurs in two percent of cases.
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“Organizations seem to have found their steady state, meaning the mix of clouds that meets their current needs. For the most part, this consists of at least one public and one private cloud,” Flexera concludes.
Hybrid does not mean that companies are moving away from the public cloud. Twenty percent of workloads were ‘repatriated’ from the public cloud to private data centers. The percentage of workloads migrating to the cloud is higher than the percentage being removed, resulting in net growth for the public cloud.
Do It (Not) Yourself
A hybrid multicloud brings additional complexity and increases the risk of silos. That’s why more and more companies are turning to managed service providers to help manage their IT ecosystem. This applies to about sixty percent, and the share is also rapidly increasing among SMEs. One in five companies says they don’t need help from an MSP.