Put it to work
Potential use cases
A starting use for this source
Research cloud-management priorities, waste and governance pain, multi-cloud complexity, and enterprise willingness to buy FinOps, platform, and data infrastructure products. Cloud decision-makers and users are the budget owners and technical evaluators for SaaS infrastructure, analytics, and data-platform offerings.
Pressure-test a planning assumption
Match the published cohort and metric definition to your company before comparing results. Use a gap to choose a question to investigate with your own data.
What it covers
Geography and granularity
Geography: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release.
Granularity: Research cloud-management priorities, waste and governance pain, multi-cloud complexity, and enterprise willingness to buy FinOps, platform, and data infrastructure products.
Source type: Cloud adoption and spend survey
Access and cost
Public source
Official press-center evidence page is public; the full report is offered through Flexera's report/resource flow and may be gated.
Cost: Current price was not established in this review; check the provider's access terms.
Update cadence: Release cadence was not normalized in this review; check the source's dates, update notes, and API limits before comparing periods.
Before you use it
Limits that matter
The 2024 sample leans enterprise and is a vendor-sponsored survey; reported cloud-spend findings are not audited market totals.