5 Cloud Computing Trends for 2025

It’s an exciting time to be in cloud computing. Every year, the tools, services, and infrastructure available get better and better. And with AI advancements over the last few years, companies have more ways than ever to create value – by cutting costs, accelerating innovation, automating complex tasks – the possibilities are endless.

2025 is shaping up to be another significant entry in the history of cloud computing. We’ll see disruption across countless industries, mainstream usage of deep tech, and increased democratization of computing power. Change will continue to be the only constant, and those who keep up with the rate of change will be ready for 2026.

AI-powered Cloud Operations

AI cloud services took off in the mid-2010s. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) started releasing solutions for things like machine learning, personalized recommendation engine development, and automated speech detection. More recently, Generative AI (GenAI) tools like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q have made GenAI technology easier to leverage in both application development and everyday business use cases.

In 2025, we’ll start to see more AI-powered cloud operations. Companies will hand off more infrastructure management and optimization to AI. Rather than using the technology for isolated use cases, IT leaders can task AI with allocating resources in real-time, detecting and mitigating threats as soon as they are identified, and finding ways to reduce operating costs. While auto-scaling and serverless workflows already exist, AI-powered cloud operations will take things a step further and add another layer of abstraction when it comes to existing on the cloud.

More Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Setups

By now, most organizations are running workloads on the cloud. While there is still much opportunity related to migrating and modernizing legacy applications, leaders are most excited about maximizing hybrid and multi-cloud setups.

For many enterprises, taking a hybrid or multi-cloud approach offers several advantages. Companies can avoid vendor lock-in and becoming too dependent on a single cloud provider. They can also tap into specific services across vendors that are well-suited for their unique business requirements.

While cloud platforms like AWS already have robust disaster recovery and durability metrics, using multiple clouds adds more redundancy for mission-critical applications. Combining public and private clouds is also attractive for teams that need more control over specific workloads and infrastructure. In 2025, we’ll see more executives adopt the hybrid and multi-cloud approach.

Quantum Computing as a Service

Quantum computing will expand further beyond research labs in 2025. Quantum computing-as-a-service (QaaS) will gain momentum and start to impact businesses and industries in material ways.

As the technology becomes more mainstream, we’ll see quantum computers tackle big problems via the cloud. Amazon Braket is already doing this for AWS users and will only get better as the year progresses.

Better Edge-to-Cloud Integration

Edge computing has advanced alongside cloud computing. In 2025, more AI work that happens on the cloud today will move to the edge. As a result, companies will better optimize IT performance – the cloud will handle intense tasks, like AI model training, while edge devices will make smaller AI-enabled decisions locally in real-time.

By leveraging the advantages of each environment, organizations will reduce the amount of data sent back and forth between the edge and the cloud, decreasing latency and bandwidth costs. We’ll also see AI-powered operations extend to this area. AI will decide which workloads should exist where, taking another IT management responsibility off human shoulders.

More GenAI Workflow Penetration

AWS re:Invent 2024 made it clear that cloud providers are investing heavily in their GenAI capabilities. In 2025, GenAI will write and optimize more code and surface enterprise data from natural language prompts.

It will create high-quality videos and images from basic instructions and handle more complex workflow automation. GenAI will infiltrate more parts of every organization, making life better for both technical and non-technical users.

Prepare for 2025 and Beyond with ClearScale and AWS

Over the past year, we helped many customers take advantage of cutting-edge services and tools on AWS. We also launched many new solutions: ClearScale Squads, a VMware Cloud exit assessment (and an AI-powered version), and more. We’re evolving with AWS and the cloud computing landscape, ensuring that our clients have access to the latest technologies and expertise.

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