Cloud | North America
Key Findings
Cloud computing deployment models #
About 40% of the respondents believe a single cloud deployment strategy is the right way to go.
![Preferred deployment strategy for a new application - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/preferred-cloud-deployment-model-north-america.png)
Public cloud providers #
As far as the cloud providers used by organizations, Microsoft Azure takes the top spot with 73% of responses, closely followed by AWS at 70%.
![Public cloud providers used - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/public-cloud-vendor-north-america.png)
Cloud migration priorities #
62% of respondents reported ease of management as the top factor in cloud shift, closely followed by business continuity (60%) and scalability (59%).
![Top priorities in cloud shift - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/factors-driving-cloud-migration-north-america.png)
Tech stacks #
A wide range of choices among the technologies. With public cloud and RDBMS topping the list.
![Technology stacks used to build applications - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/technology-stacks-north-america.png)
PaaS services #
57% of respondents reported using database-related PaaS services, followed by storage (51%) and DevOps (45%).
![Type of PaaS services used - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/pass-services-north-america.png)
Cloud computing challenges #
56% of the respondents reported that security is still the primary challenge in cloud computing, closely followed by a lack of expertise (48%) and optimizing costs (45%).
![Cloud challenges faced - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/public-cloud-challenges-north-america.png)
Cloud cost management #
72% of respondents reported they employ right sizing whenever possible to lower costs.
![How organizations are optimizing costs? - North America](http://img.site24x7static.com/images/survey/cloud-cost-optimization-north-america.png)