This report analyzes container adoption trends using telemetry from more than 2.4 billion containers across tens of thousands of Datadog customers, revealing how containerization is evolving beyond basic infrastructure management into a foundation for modern cloud applications. One key trend is the rapid growth of serverless containers, now used by about 46% of container organizations as teams aim to reduce operational overhead and improve development agility. The report also highlights a 58% year-over-year increase in GPU-based compute usage in containerized workloads, largely driven by AI and machine-learning applications. Additional findings show rising adoption of Arm-based compute instances to reduce cloud costs, broader use of Horizontal Pod Autoscaling to scale Kubernetes workloads,

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