New research from Civo found that on average firms use less than 10 services from their public cloud provider. Perhaps even more surprisingly, 34% of businesses indicated they used just 5 or less services from AWS, Google or Azure.
The research of IT professionals revealed that the majority of users are only using a narrow band of services offered by the Big Three public cloud giants. Only 20% of respondents are frequently using more than 15 of the products or services offered by AWS, Google or Azure.
The research also found that:
- The most used compute services were compute instances (non-GPU), accessed by 69% of users.
- The most used storage services were Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage – accessed by 79% respondents.
- 87% users reported using either containers or Kubernetes in their organisation.
Mark Boost, CEO of Civo, said “Complexity abounds in the public cloud market, not only in billing structures but also in the vast number of services now offered by hyperscalers.
“These survey results highlight that while many companies believe they must be using a hyperscaler to access their vast array of services, the reality is very different, with the majority only needing less than 10 core services such as compute instances, Kubernetes and object storage.”
With difficult economic headwinds ahead businesses may see high spending on these services get put under the microscope more, with 45% of firms indicating a growing pressure from leadership to reduce cloud costs.
Mark Boost, CEO of Civo, said “Often companies believe that using a hyperscaler is the only option for their business, drawn in by their sheer scale and number of services offered. Perhaps for very large companies having access to a vast amount of services makes sense, but for the majority of small and medium sized businesses this simply isn’t the case. With many companies only using a small core of services, they’re paying a large premium to use a hyperscaler and adding unnecessary complexity in the process too.”
