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There is a new reality today, because more and more companies are embracing modern development tools. While old monolithic applications still exist, and will remain with us for a long time, a high percentage of new applications fall under the cloud native paradigm. New applications proliferate in ways never seen before. According to the IDC (IDC Market Note (Dec 15,2021 update to IDC FutureScape 2020)) 750M apps will be built using modern development tools by 2025. This application demand places an unprecedented burden on IT organizations. This massive number of new applications demands an even higher number of dev/test environments that need to exist to accommodate the applications development lifecycle.
For this specific use case, public cloud providers become an excellent choice. And it is very common to find not one, but various cloud providers servicing this need, which describes a typical multicloud environment.
This reality is well described in ESG’s Study- Infrastructure for Cloud-Native Development Enablement, showing how many organizations that are using modern application tooling are also using public clouds as their development and test arena. Some of the key benefits companies are expecting to find in these cloud providers is rapid access to that modern tooling and the ability to have access to extra IT resources for a short period of time.
Figure 1. New applications impact IT operations