RightScale, now a part of Flexera, has published its annual state of the cloud report. Every year RightScale does a survey of enterprises and SMBs to analyze the adoption of cloud. This is the first report after the company got acquired by Flexera.
This year, Flexera surveyed over 123,691 users on their adoption of cloud computing across a broad cross-section of organizations. Only 21 percent of the respondents are users of RightScale. Out of the 786 respondents, 456 represented organizations with 1000+ employees while 330 respondents were from the SMB segment.
Here are the key takeaways from the report:
1. Enterprises are betting big on multi-cloud
Customers are continuing to invest in multiple cloud platforms. This includes both the public and private cloud usage. 84 percent of the respondents are using more than 4 cloud platforms.
When compared to 2018, hybrid cloud adoption has increased by 7 percent.
2. Public cloud continues to grow at a rapid pace
23 percent of the respondents spend at least $2.4 million annually on the public cloud while 33 percent are spending at least $1.2 million per year. Among enterprises the spend is higher – 38 percent exceeding $2.4 million per year and a half (50 percent) above $1.2 million per year.
3. Cost optimization is the biggest challenge for enterprises
Cloud users – both enterprises & SMBs – are focused on optimizing cost and cloud usage. With 84% percent of the votes, cost optimization is the top concern for enterprises.
4. Container adoption is on the rise among enterprises
With the adoption rate increasing to 57 percent from 49 percent in 2018, containers are becoming mainstream. Kubernetes usage increased from 27 percent to 48 percent adoption.
5. Ansible is the preferred DevOps tool
Red Hat’s Ansible enjoys the top slot in the adoption of DevOps tools. Among all respondents, Ansible has 41 percent adoption, followed by Chef and Puppet at 37 percent adoption. Interestingly, Terraform shows the most substantial growth since last year, up by 55 percent from 20 to 31 percent adoption.
6. Azure is the fastest growing public cloud
Azure adoption grew from 45 to 52 percent to inch closer to AWS. Azure adoption has now reached 85 percent of AWS adoption, up from 70 percent last year.
7. AWS growth is almost flat, but the number of workloads is growing rapidly
AWS grew the percentage of users with more than 100 VMs from 31 percent in 2018 to 33 percent in 2019.
9. Serverless and stream processing platforms are the fastest growing services
Serverless is one of the fastest growing services in the public cloud. Stream processing services such as Azure Event Hub, Amazon Kinesis, and Google Cloud Dataflow are gaining popularity among cloud users.
10. Private cloud growth is abysmal
Though VMware vSphere continues to lead with 50 percent adoption, the growth is almost flat when compared to last year. Azure Stack and AWS Outposts are expected to change the private cloud landscape.
