PERFORMANCE Signal 252
IT Teams Report 11 Hour a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems
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The disconnect between perceived readiness and actual operational burden means engineers are losing significant time to connectivity firefighting rather than building. Private interconnection—dedicated infrastructure bypassing the public internet—is emerging as the practical response, with 61% of companies already using it and another 31% actively considering it.
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Latency, security vulnerabilities, and reliability are the top connectivity concerns at 28%, 27%, and 26% respectively, suggesting public internet routing struggles under AI workload demands.
Smaller companies are disproportionately affected, with 8.62% spending 21-40 hours per week on connectivity issues compared to just 2.53% of the largest companies.
Cloud infrastructure spending passed $143 billion in Q2 with AI-specific cloud services growing at 165% year-on-year, intensifying the pressure on network architecture.
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