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Cloud downtime, costly outages, and overspend are real challenges—and the numbers prove it, read more here.
These real world insights underline why our services—optimising AWS, Azure, and multi-cloud environments—deliver measurable impact, helping you prevent downtime, cut costs, and run your cloud smarter.
Downtime & Reliability
54% of outages cost more than USD 100k
Uptime Institute
35% of outages caused by network failures
New Relic
28% of outages caused by human error
New Relic
90% of firms report downtime costs exceeding $300k per hour
ITIC
CSP outages increased share of incidents from 11% to 27%
CISCO ThousandEyes
Security
42% of breaches detected internally via tooling
IBM Report
MFA can block more than 99.2% of account compromise attacks
Microsoft security
UK breach cost £3.58 m in 2024
IBM
26% of breaches caused by IT failure
IBM
DevOps
Major AWS cloud outage affected millions of users and services worldwide
Reuters
47 % of organisations leverage AWS DevOps services
Nearly half of surveyed organisations use AWS DevOps tooling as part of their DevOps stack
Brokee
Root cause analysis reduces downtime frequency by 37%
New Relic
AWS uses DORA metrics to benchmark DevOps performance (deployment frequency, lead time, failure rate, MTTR)
AWS promotes DORA metrics for measuring delivery speed and reliability in AWS environments
DORA
AWS improvements reduced end‑to‑end software delivery costs by 15.9 % YoY in 2024
Using AWS DevOps/Developer Experience enhancements delivered measurable cost reduction
AWS
Tech giants spend hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure, boosting cloud growth
Reuters
66% of UK organisations have adopted or are implementing DevOps practices
ESS Feed
FinOps - Cost Optimisation
84% of companies consider managing cloud spend a top challenge
Most organisations struggle with cost governance and visibility
PWC
78% of organisations report 21–50% of annual cloud spend wasted
Many firms recognise substantial inefficiencies in their cloud cost bases
CACI
Enterprises could waste ~USD 44.5 billion this year
Overall cloud waste reaches tens of billions from inefficiencies
ITPro
27% of cloud spend wasted due to inefficiency
PWC
~27–32% of cloud spend is wasted on inefficiencies
Nearly a third of cloud budgets can be lost to idle or underutilised resources
Unanswered
Cloud Stats - AWS / Azure
89% of UK enterprises use multi-cloud environments
Most UK organisations run DevOps & workloads across AWS, Azure, or hybrid platforms
PipeTen
UK cloud market forecast to reach $135bn by 2030
Grand View Horizon
AWS and Azure each control 30–40% of IaaS and PaaS markets
Platform Stack
Cloud computing represents 1.3–1.6% of UK GDP
Cloud is now a meaningful component of the UK digital economy
Grand View Horizon
AWS ~29% global share vs Azure ~20%
Quantum Run
AWS and Microsoft each hold 30–40% of UK cloud spend