Multi-cloud adoption continues to accelerate as enterprises seek to avoid vendor lock-in. Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, with 78% of organizations now running production workloads on K8s clusters.
Edge computing is emerging as a complement to centralized cloud, particularly for IoT and real-time analytics use cases. The global edge computing market is expected to reach 61 billion by 2028.
Serverless architectures are gaining traction for event-driven workloads, though cold start latency remains a concern for latency-sensitive applications.