31% Of IT Leaders Waste Half Their Cloud Spend
CIO, Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
Cloud cost overruns are an increasingly common issue for organizations across all industries. Straightforward solutions exist, but they require changes in culture, not just tech.
Nearly half of IT decision-makers believe their organization sees more than a quarter of its cloud spend wasted, with around one in three (31%) saying that the waste exceeds 50%, according to a report from VMware.
Analysts and other cloud specialists see cloud cost overruns being a significant issue in the enterprise today, but they place the blame on developer and IT culture. By changing how the organization thinks of cloud investments - along with adopting a far more cynical view of cloud contract language - much of the cloud spend problem can be reduced, many industry observers contend.