Cloud Trends 2025: Repatriation And Sustainability Make Their Marks
InfoWorld, Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report reveals a rise in workloads returning to data centers even as generative AI use and public cloud adoption accelerate.
What are the top priorities and challenges related to the use of cloud computing? The Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report draws on the insights of 759 cloud decision-makers and users globally who took part in a survey in late 2024. The results illustrate the evolution of ongoing trends in past years, while simultaneously spotlighting the emergence of new forces driving cloud usage.
Workloads move back to data centers
A noteworthy shift of applications and data back from cloud to data centers-known as repatriation-is happening. Slightly more than one-fifth (21%) of workloads and data have been repatriated. However, ongoing migration to cloud and net-new cloud workloads outstrip these cloud exits, resulting in continued cloud growth.