The global cloud computing market is huge and continues to grow. In 2025, approximately 94% of organizations will already use cloud infrastructure, storage, and software in some format.
The same data shows that 85% of companies of every shape and size will complete a cloud-first transition before the end of 2025.
It’s interesting and useful to know the latest cloud migration statistics, including key trends, challenges, and opportunities, and that’s what this article is about.
Cloud Migration Statistics: Summary Table
| Core Themes | Key Stats |
|---|---|
| Cloud computing market size | $500 billion (approx) 2023: Projected to reach $1 trillion in 2030, with a CAGR of 20%+ (some estimates are up to $2tn in the same timescale) |
| Enterprise use | ~94 % using cloud providers (hybrid, multi, edge, etc.) |
| Deployment | ~89 % multi-cloud, ~80 % hybrid |
| Costs saved | 20–30% vs. On-prem & traditional in-house ITSM |
| Project cost/time | An average of $1.2M / 8 months (for enterprise orgs) |
| ROI success rate | ~89% for cloud migration projects |
| Challenges | Integration, security, and cost overruns |
| Security risk | Misconfigurations can cause 70% of data breaches |
| Growing trends | AI tooling, serverless, and edge computing. Taking the cloud to the next level with next-gen computing |
41 Cloud Migration Statistics in 2025
The following stats have been broken down into core areas, and we’ve summarized everything in a table at the end:
- Market size and growth
- Enterprise adoption
- Cloud deployment models
- Cost savings vs. On-prem
- Efficiency and performance gains from using cloud computing
- Average cloud migration timescales and success rates
- Main reasons for cloud migrations
- Challenges and roadblocks
- Security and compliance
- Emerging trends
Now, let’s take a closer look at what’s going on in the cloud and with cloud migrations.
Market Size and Growth
The cloud migration market is a sub-market, a service category of the overall and much larger cloud computing market. Cloud computing is vast and includes some big players the dominate the scene, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Partner (GCP), and Microsoft’s Azure.
Therefore, we have included stats about cloud migration and the cloud market as a whole, and have made it clear which is which throughout this article.
- Figures vary on the overall size of the cloud computing market. Some estimates are that it was worth $500 billion in 2023 and will grow to $1 trillion in 2028 and $1.6tn by 2030.
- Other research shows that cloud computing was worth around $750 billion in 2024 and will hit $1.6tn in 2028, and $2.38tn in 2030. Giving the market a CAGR of 21.20% from 2025 to 2034.
- According to Goldman Sachs US Software Research, “cloud computing sales are expected to rise to $2 trillion by the end of the decade.”
- As of 2023, it was worth “$496 billion, representing a 26% compound annual growth rate” since 2019.
- Although 66% (as of 2024) of the cloud computing market is controlled by the big three: AWS, Google, and Microsoft, there are numerous other players in this market, including Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud, Salesforce, Oracle Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform, and VMware Cloud (source)
- Cloud migration, on the other hand is a smaller market because this is one of the many markets where vendors serve clients and support the migration of businesses to and between various Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), like AWS, Google, and Azure.
- The global cloud migration market is projected to reach $20.5 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 24.8 % (source)
- Cloud migration growth is fastest in the Asia Pacific market, with 35% of cloud migration projects happening in that region (source)
- The majority of cloud migration projects (70%) are the movement of workloads to public cloud providers, with the aim of keeping migrations affordable and time-effecient (source)
- Global public cloud infrastructure spend jumped from $525 billion in 2023 to $592 billion in 2024, with another increase to $679 billion expected in 2025 (source)
Enterprise Adoption
- It’s estimated that 94% of organizations already use cloud infrastructure, storage, and software in some format, and 85% will complete a cloud-first transition before the end of 2025.
- At least 60% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now rely on cloud providers for the vast majority of their workloads and storage needs (source)
- Workloads in the cloud rely on a mix of data storage, Software as a Service (SaaS), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and PaaS (Platform as a Service).
- In late 2023, 57% of organizations reported accelerating their cloud migration over the prior year (down from 69% in 2022) (Source), and this trend continued to accelerate into 2024 and this year.
- More than half of IT environments (meaning IT service management, rather than the umbrella term referring to other services in the cloud) are now cloud‑based: 52% of companies had migrated the majority of their IT during or before 2023, with 63 % expecting to do so within 18 months (Source)
Cloud Deployment Models
- Multi‑cloud usage: 89% of organizations use multi‑cloud solutions; 76% in 2024, with 94% of large enterprises (>5k employees) using multi-cloud, which is a mix of different cloud providers, plus on-prem solutions (source)
- Hybrid cloud adoption: Has stayed fairly constant, going from 73% in 2023 to 80% in 2025 (source)
- By the end of 2025, an expected 87% of enterprises will operate using a hybrid cloud environment (Source). This is instead of keeping everything with one cloud provider; a strategy that many enterprise CTOs are wary of, as it’s too high-risk.
Cost Savings vs. On-Prem, and Cloud-based Financials
- Compared to traditional on-premises (on-prem) infrastructure, taking a cloud-native approach, ensures that Cloud migration drives an average 20% to 30% reduction in IT costs (source)
- These cost savings accumulate. It was estimated that by 2024, organizations will have save up to $12.5 billion annually in IT costs compared to on-prem IT and traditional in-house ITSM services (source)
- However, there are upfront costs when a large organization migrates workloads to the cloud. The Average cloud migration project costs around $1.2 million for an enterprise org. The migration costs reduce in scale for smaller companies, and some businesses have only ever known the cloud, so are cloud-native from being a startup (source)
- Cloud downtime, whether it’s caused by a fault, a cyberattack, data breach, or something else, can be expensive. The average unexpected downtime cost per cloud outage can range anywhere from $300,000 to $5,600 (although this can get a lot more expensive for enterprise orgs) (source)
Efficiency and Performance Gains
- Post-migration, organizations report a 32% operational efficiency boost, 25% scalability improvement, and 35% less downtime (source)
- Cloud analytics delivers 30% faster decision‑making than on-prem or other types of analytics software (source)
- Infrastructure and technology scalability improves by 30%, and time-to-market accelerates by around 20% once a cloud migration is complete (source)
Cloud Migration Timescales and Success Rates
Cloud migration is getting faster. However, DuploCloud can deliver time-to-cloud from months to days.
- Average implementation duration: dropped from 12 months (2019) to 8 months (2023) (Source)
- Cloud migration success rate stands at around 89%, and this gets better when you work with a specialist cloud migration team (Source)
Main Reasons for Cloud Migrations
- The main reasons amongst business, operational and C-Suite leaders for new or ongoing cloud migrations include cost optimization, digital transformation, resilience, AI enablement, and operational agility:
- 48% of CIOs and CFOs say cost optimization is their top reason and a cloud migration is the best way to achieve that (source)
- 81% of CIOs believe digital transformation only succeeds when they’re integrated with cloud strategies (Source)
- 69% of organizations cite digital transformation as a key driver for implementing a cloud migration (source)
- It’s not surprising then that numerous studies have confirmed that 94% of enterprise organizations are now using cloud services in 2025 (Source)
Challenges and Roadblocks When Implementing a Cloud Migration
Cloud migrations aren’t simple, and for that reason there are numerous challenges and roadblocks that IT and business leaders have to handle during this process. These include but aren’t limited to:
- 38% struggle with integration, 30% with security, 25% with IT, database, or AI-based skill gaps, and 20% with unforeseen costs (source)
- 69% of IT leaders saw budget overruns in 2023 (source)
- 50% of IT leaders cite spend management as the top migration challenge (source)
- Post-migration issues: 54% worry about app dependencies, 46% compare cost feasibility, and 45% assess technical feasibility (Source)
Cloud Security and Regulatory Compliance
Security is a massive concern for every organization, and during a cloud migration, the worry is that your IT is vulnerable.
- 81% identify security as a top cloud challenge. This isn’t limited to during a migration; although security worries are heightened during this period. (source)
- Misconfiguration accounts for 70% of cloud security breaches and is flagged by 59% of cybersecurity professionals. Be prepared for a cloud migration by having the right security procedures and software in-place.
- 95% of organizations are concerned about their cloud security posture and want to do more to improve internal and external defenses (Source)
Emerging Cloud and Cloud Migration Trends
These are the cloud migration trends we are seeing drive growth in 2025, and we expect these to continue next year and beyond:
- AI-driven migration tools are growing faster than anything else , with 28 % annual growth in the last couple of years (source)
- Serverless computing is growing, with a 22 % adoption rate so far (source)
- Edge-to-cloud architectures are rising fast: 1 % in 2023, accelerating to 25 % in 2024 (Source)
- Hybrid & edge computational mix, and cloud-native development increases are reshaping IT strategies for enterprise orgs and SMBs (source)
- Container usage, infrastructure-as-code, and security/FinOps tools adoption are all trending upward in 2025 too (source)
How Automation Platforms Like DuploCloud Are Changing the Game
For businesses looking either to migrate to the cloud, move between cloud providers, or even implement a reverse cloud migration for certain workloads, DuploCloud can help.
When it comes to cloud migrations, our platform is a game changer for SMBs and enterprise orgs alike, for the following reasons:
- Migrating with DuploCloud means you can reduce time-to-cloud from months to days. We make cloud migrations so simple you’ll be amazed they can be this efficient.
- DuploCloud software and services come with built-in security and regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, etc.) and robust security controls
. - Networking is automated, and IAM, CI/CD, and observability are all integral to the platform and the migration process.
- DuploCloud works natively across AWS, Azure, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructures. We are cloud-agnostic, so we can support any kind of migration to every platform.
- We help your DevOps teams scale without you needing cloud architects on staff, ensuring you make considerable savings compared to cloud migration projects, the traditional way.
Are you ready to make a cloud migration? Contact DuploCloud to book a demo today.
