“The State of the Cloud Report” has been published for 13 straight years. I’ve read so many of these reports that I’ve seen private cloud usage surge several times amid the broader trend toward multicloud adoption. The latest edition by Flexera provides new data about sustainability initiatives and repatriation, as well as updates on the state of public cloud usage and cloud optimization.
Here are few findings highlighted in the complete article:
- Optimizing cloud costs outweighs sustainability goals, with 57% of survey respondents prioritizing cost savings while only 9% say sustainability and carbon reduction are more important.
- FinOps continues to grow as 59% of the survey respondents have a FinOps team that advises on, manages or executes cloud optimization strategies. That’s up from 51% in the 2024 version of the study.
- Repatriation is not stopping the overall trend toward the public cloud.
