Jean is an analyst working across the Cloud Transformation team and Digital Economics Unit of 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In addition to producing the quarterly Cloud Price Index deliverables, Jean covers vendors and cloud providers that offer technology or services to manage or improve public and private cloud TCO, performance or consumption. In the cloud-native universe, she focuses on container-native software, serverless architectures and service mesh.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Jean worked at Omdia in the telecom, networks and consumer technology sectors. She holds a BA from Oberlin College.
Despite inflation, higher energy prices and overall belt-tightening among enterprises, spending on IaaS/PaaS public cloud continues to expand, driven by new business and IT initiatives and cloud migration. However, organizations report that ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty could put the brakes on the magnitude of public cloud spending growth.
Despite inflation and belt-tightening among enterprises, IT decision-makers are moving ahead with application modernization plans. As organizations become more mature in their use of cloud and take better advantage of new services and architectures, the benefits of updating legacy applications start to outweigh the risks.
The cloud operating model continues to permeate enterprise IT environments. In 2022 the uptick in on-premises private cloud usage outpaced growth in software as a service and public cloud; hosted private cloud adoption was flat.
After introducing its seventh-generation VM families in China and Singapore in 2021, Alibaba Cloud now offers EPYC-based instances in the Japan, Germany and U.S. East regions. Most come with a lower price tag. The provider also made across-the-board price cuts on function as a service, but is phasing out the always-free allowance.
The Cloud Price Index now produces more than 500 public cloud benchmarks each quarter for 10 regions around the world, spanning compute, storage, machine learning, database, serverless and network. The new format aggregates this data into a single spreadsheet, with tools that allow clients to chart time-based and geographical trends plus to build their own baskets of cloud services.
Hiring freezes? Yes. Price increases? Not so much… or at least not yet. With steady capital investments in public cloud infrastructure and incentives to help customers spend less, the hyperscale cloud providers are optimizing for long-term loyalty, even if it means fluctuating earnings and margins.
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