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SANS Multicloud Survey: Exploring the World of Multicloud

SANS Multicloud Survey: Exploring the World of Multicloud

SANS Multicloud Survey: Exploring the World of Multicloud

Pages 26 Pages

This survey explores how multicloud adoption is becoming the norm, driven by flexibility, cost optimization, and avoiding vendor lock-in, but it introduces major security challenges. It finds that over 50% of organizations use multiple cloud providers—including AWS, Azure, and GCP—and many inherit additional clouds through mergers and acquisitions. However, security readiness lags behind: many teams report being only “somewhat prepared” or even “not at all prepared” to secure certain cloud services. The chart on page 5 shows that workloads are widely distributed across providers, while another insight reveals that 80%+ of organizations aim for cloud-agnostic architectures, though only 17% fully achieve it. The report also highlights issues like shadow cloud accounts, fragmented security to

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