Public cloud adoption in India to rise 30% to $7.3 bn in 2022: Gartner

The sector has accelerated since the onset of the pandemic, which was a tipping point for Indian businesses to realise its true value, says Gartner

End-user spending on public cloud services in India is forecast to total $7.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 29.6% from 2021, according to a recent forecast by Gartner, Inc.

“Public cloud services adoption has accelerated since the onset of the global pandemic. The pandemic was a tipping point for Indian businesses to realise the true value of public cloud,” said Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner.

“In India, the policy infrastructure is emerging as an important contributor to public cloud growth. For example, the recently launched public cloud government initiatives Meghraj and Cloud Vision for India 2022 will prove useful