According to Flexera IT's State of the Cloud Report 2022, Microsoft Azure has outpaced AWS in terms of public cloud adoption.
Azure has become a leader among enterprise users, with 80% of respondents using Microsoft public clouds, up from 76% the previous year. AWS reported a 77% adoption rate, up from 79% a year earlier. At Google this figure is 48%, followed by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, whose share fell to 27% from 32% a year ago.
Flexera's report indicates that Azure is ahead of AWS in terms of breadth of adoption, although Google has the highest percentage of adoption experiments (23%). Oracle has the highest percentage of users (12%) planning to use its cloud, meaning the survey results could improve in the coming years.
AWS continues to lead the SMB public cloud segment, although adoption rates have dropped slightly this year from 72% to 69%, while Azure's has risen from 48% to 59%. Oracle also posted strong growth, almost doubling its adoption rate from 15% to 28% year-on-year.
The report notes that "as organizations mature, they tend to gravitate toward market leaders" and that Azure is approaching Amazon's cloud services in terms of heavy usage.
The document also talks about increasing unnecessary spending on clouds; respondents said their organizations wasted 32% of funds compared to 30% the previous year. According to the report, the actual figure could be higher.
Respondents pointed out big problems related to experience, safety and management. The best approach was Microsoft's Azure Stack with 37 percent adoption for current workloads across all organizations. It is followed by VMware vSphere. Interestingly, for enterprises, OpenStack usage has dropped from 31% to just 16% this year.
The report was prepared on the basis of a survey of 753 professionals from around the world, most of whom were located in the United States.
In early March, Google announced a public preview of the second generation of Cloud Functions, functions as a service platform in Google Cloud. The new version introduces additional controls, improved performance and scalability.
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