Security News > 2021 > November > Cloud adoption growing steadily, but cost and regulatory challenges remain

Similar to last year's results, cloud adoption has continued to grow, but cost and regulatory requirements are two major challenges cited by respondents.

Given the events of the COVID-19 pandemic, one might have expected a bigger spike in cloud adoption to support remote and hybrid work environments.

Despite cost concerns, technologists understand the value of the cloud.

Among respondents not currently using cloud computing, cost was the second-most-important reason why, preceded only by regulatory requirements.

"It shouldn't be a hindrance to adoption when you weigh the cost of migrating workloads to the cloud against possible outages and interruptions to service on traditional on-premises systems that can't handle a heavy load or spike in traffic. This will become especially apparent for the retail industry as we approach the holiday shopping season."

Other cloud adoption challenges Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the most popular cloud solutions, although most respondents use multiple cloud providers.

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