Cloud | Middle East & Africa
Key Findings
Cloud computing deployment models #
Contrary to other regions, on-premises takes the top choice (48%) as the preferred deployment model for new applications.
![Preferred deployment strategy for a new application - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/preferred-cloud-deployment-model-mea.png)
Public cloud providers #
Keeping in line with the market trend, 65% of the respondents reported using AWS, followed by Microsoft Azure at 56%.
![Public cloud providers used - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/public-cloud-vendor-mea.png)
Cloud migration priorities #
Both ease of management (76%) and scalability (76%) took the top spot in cloud migration priorities.
![Top priorities in cloud shift - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/factors-driving-cloud-migration-mea.png)
Tech stacks #
A wide range of choices among the technologies. With public cloud topping the list, followed by virtualization software..
![Technology stacks used to build applications - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/technology-stacks-mea.png)
PaaS services #
67% of respondents reported they use database-related PaaS services, followed by storage (61%) and API related services (39%)
![Type of PaaS services used - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/pass-services-mea.png)
Cloud computing challenges #
50% of the respondents reported that security is still the primary challenge in cloud computing, closely followed by cost optimization (47%) and governance (44%).
![Cloud challenges faced - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/public-cloud-challenges-mea.png)
Cloud cost management #
69% of respondents reported they set budgets and controls to lower costs.
![How organizations are optimizing costs? - MEA](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/cloud-cost-optimization-mea.png)