61% of Canadian organisations report that their public cloud environments have been the most impacted by cyberattacks.

Adopting a hybrid cloud storage model is identified as a strong risk mitigation strategy for security.

Organisations without plans to implement a hybrid cloud model are more likely (51%) to have data security and privacy concerns

79% of manufacturers agree that cloud solutions offer clear benefits around decision-making, remote monitoring, and supply chain coordination.

AWS and CloudFlare accounted for nearly 50% of all instances of abused cloud hosting instances in 2024.

Cloud-native and identity-enabled techniques surged in the Red Canary's 2025 Threat Detection Report, with Cloud Accounts, Email Forwarding Rule, and Email Hiding Rules ranking among the top five.

One in six (17%) ANZ businesses report negative operational impacts from cold storage performance or access delays.

47% of organisations in Japan are using a mix of traditional on-premises and cloud storage.

Less than half (48%) of ANZ businesses currently use object lock.

Networking fees, data management fees, data access and retrieval requests, and egress fees are among the costliest for APAC respondents.

66% of organisations in Japan say they recover data from public cloud for backup and recovery purposes, at least monthly. This is lower than the APAC average of 80%

63% of businesses in Japan exceeding their cloud storage budget.

Fees eat up nearly half (49%) of total public cloud storage bills for Japan enterprises.

48% of ANZ businesses plan to implement object lock in the next year or beyond.

A staggering 65% of Japan organisations say egress or other data access fees associated with moving their data out of public cloud have delayed IT or business initiatives. This is much higher than the APAC average of 50%.

Almost one in six APAC organisations report negative business impacts from cold storage performance delays.

49% of end-user cloud storage spending in APAC goes to fees for storage and networking, rather than actual storage used.

68% of ANZ organisations recover data from public cloud storage at least weekly for backup purposes.

Pricing remains the top driver of dissatisfaction among ANZ public cloud storage users.

100% of ANZ organisations surveyed say they access or retrieve archived data at least annually.