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IDC expects global public cloud spending to pass $1 trillion in 2026, and Synergy Research Group measured cloud infrastructure revenue of $167.7 billion in the third quarter of 2026, up 55% year on year. Amazon, Microsoft and Google held 26%, 19% and 16% of that market. Flexera's 2026 survey found organizations estimate 29% of their cloud spend is wasted.

Spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $168 billion in the third quarter of 2026, up 55% year over year, according to Synergy Research Group. Entry-level hosting remains cheap: DigitalOcean bundled Droplets start at $4 a month and AWS Lightsail runs a Linux instance for $5 a month. Verisign counted 182.5 million .com and .net domains at the end of September 2026, and the HTTP Archive found WordPress powered roughly 64% of CMS-driven sites in 2025.

Splunk's 2026 research puts the average cost of unplanned downtime at $15,000 per minute and the total for Global 2000 companies at $600 billion a year. New Relic's 2025 survey put the median cost of a high-impact outage at $2 million per hour, and ITIC found that one hour of downtime costs more than $300,000 for over 90% of mid-size and large enterprises. Uptime Institute reports that 1 in 5 organizations said their latest major outage cost more than $1 million.