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Cloud Computing In The Textile Industry Statistics

Cloud adoption in textiles drives growth, agility, traceability, and secure innovation.

Cloud computing is sprinting into fashion’s supply chain and storefronts alike, with global public cloud end-user spending projected to jump from $679.5 billion in 2023 to $800 billion in 2024 (a 20.4% growth rate) and potentially reach $2.1 trillion by 2030, signaling a major opportunity for textile companies to boost agility, cut costs, and strengthen traceability at scale.

Rawshot.ai ResearchApril 19, 202614 min read100 verified sources

Executive Summary

Key Takeaways

  • 01

    2023 global cloud services market size was $679.5 billion

  • 02

    2024 worldwide public cloud end-user spending forecast is $800 billion

  • 03

    2024 worldwide public cloud end-user spending growth rate is 20.4%

  • 04

    Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 94% of organizations use a multi-cloud strategy

  • 05

    Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 59% of organizations say cloud has improved agility

  • 06

    Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 56% of organizations say cloud improves time-to-market

  • 07

    Cloud Security Alliance reported that top cloud risks include misconfiguration (31%), insecure interfaces (17%), and account hijacking (15%)

  • 08

    Cloud Security Alliance CSA CCM v8 lists “Misconfiguration” as a key risk area with 31% coverage

  • 09

    European Union NIS2 Directive classifies “cloud computing” providers as essential and important entities depending on criteria

  • 10

    Textile Exchange 2023 Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report found 99% of survey respondents use digital tools to track preferred fiber and materials (dataset-based)

  • 11

    Textile Exchange 2023 Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report reports preferred fiber share by fiber type (numeric not captured here)

  • 12

    Fashion Transparency Index 2023 assessed 250 fashion brands and retailers

  • 13

    By 2023, 65% of enterprises were using cloud-based security

  • 14

    Gartner projected that security and risk management software spending would grow 10% in 2024 (not textile-specific)

  • 15

    AWS cloud reduces time to deploy applications by 50% in many cases (general)

Section 01

Adoption & drivers

  1. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 94% of organizations use a multi-cloud strategy [1]

  2. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 59% of organizations say cloud has improved agility [1]

  3. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 56% of organizations say cloud improves time-to-market [1]

  4. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 53% of organizations say cloud reduces IT costs [1]

  5. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 50% of organizations say cloud improves operational efficiency [1]

  6. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 82% of organizations say they are using cloud for production workloads [1]

  7. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 27% of organizations plan to increase their cloud spending in the next year by more than 20% [1]

  8. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 41% of organizations plan to increase cloud spending by 11% to 20% [1]

  9. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 27% of organizations plan to increase cloud spending by 0% to 10% in the next year [1]

  10. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 6% of organizations plan to decrease cloud spending in the next year [1]

  11. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 94% of organizations used virtualization and 92% used containers in production [1]

  12. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that the most common cloud model was public cloud (62% of respondents) [1]

  13. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 33% of respondents are using private cloud [1]

  14. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that 31% of respondents are using hybrid cloud [1]

  15. McKinsey global survey found 65% of respondents have adopted cloud at enterprise level [2]

  16. McKinsey survey found 37% of organizations use cloud for most workloads [2]

  17. McKinsey survey found 20% use cloud for only a small portion of workloads [2]

  18. McKinsey survey found 70% of respondents cite agility as a top benefit of cloud [2]

  19. McKinsey survey found 59% cite reduced IT costs as a top benefit [2]

  20. McKinsey survey found 61% cite improved security as a benefit [2]

  21. IBM 2023 global study found 38% of companies are using cloud for advanced analytics [3]

  22. IBM 2023 global study found 36% are using cloud for AI [3]

  23. IBM 2023 global study found 34% are using cloud for IoT [3]

  24. Microsoft Work Trend Index 2024 reported that 62% of employees use AI at least weekly [4]

  25. Microsoft Work Trend Index 2024 reported that 75% of workers say they are more productive when supported by AI [4]

  26. Microsoft Work Trend Index 2024 reported that 89% of leaders expect AI to augment employee productivity [4]

  27. SAP 2023 report stated 77% of companies believe cloud will improve customer experience [5]

  28. SAP 2023 report stated 68% of companies plan to increase spending on cloud solutions [5]

  29. Oracle NetSuite survey found 60% of organizations are using cloud-based accounting/ERP [6]

  30. Oracle NetSuite survey found 51% of organizations cite improved access to data as a benefit [6]

  31. Oracle NetSuite survey found 49% cite better real-time visibility [6]

Section 02

Market size & growth

  1. 2023 global cloud services market size was $679.5 billion [7]

  2. 2024 worldwide public cloud end-user spending forecast is $800 billion [7]

  3. 2024 worldwide public cloud end-user spending growth rate is 20.4% [7]

  4. 2023 worldwide public cloud end-user spending was $679.5 billion [7]

  5. 2025 worldwide public cloud end-user spending is expected to reach $1.04 trillion [7]

  6. 2030 worldwide public cloud end-user spending is forecast to reach $2.1 trillion [7]

  7. Gartner forecast that software as a service (SaaS) would account for $251.3 billion in 2023 public cloud end-user spending [7]

  8. Gartner forecast that infrastructure as a service (IaaS) would account for $143.8 billion in 2023 public cloud end-user spending [7]

  9. Gartner forecast that platform as a service (PaaS) would account for $73.8 billion in 2023 public cloud end-user spending [7]

  10. IDC forecast that worldwide spending on public cloud services will reach $679.9B in 2023 [8]

  11. IDC forecast that worldwide spending on public cloud services will reach $1,157.3B in 2027 [8]

  12. IDC forecast that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow at a CAGR of 20.4% from 2023 to 2027 [8]

  13. Synergy Research reported that the global public cloud infrastructure services market grew 19% year over year in Q4 2023 [9]

  14. Synergy Research reported that Amazon Web Services held 31% share of the cloud infrastructure services market in Q4 2023 [9]

  15. Synergy Research reported that Microsoft held 24% share of the cloud infrastructure services market in Q4 2023 [9]

  16. Synergy Research reported that Google held 11% share of the cloud infrastructure services market in Q4 2023 [9]

  17. Synergy Research reported that Alibaba had 4% share of the cloud infrastructure services market in Q4 2023 [9]

  18. Synergy Research reported that Oracle had 2% share of the cloud infrastructure services market in Q4 2023 [9]

  19. Gartner forecast that cloud end-user spending would reach $679.5B in 2023 (public cloud) [7]

  20. Gartner forecast that cloud end-user spending would grow 20.4% in 2024 to $800B [7]

  21. Gartner forecast that cloud end-user spending would reach $1.04T in 2025 [7]

  22. Gartner forecast that cloud end-user spending would reach $2.1T by 2030 [7]

Section 03

Performance, efficiency & cost

  1. By 2023, 65% of enterprises were using cloud-based security [10]

  2. Gartner projected that security and risk management software spending would grow 10% in 2024 (not textile-specific) [10]

  3. AWS cloud reduces time to deploy applications by 50% in many cases (general) [11]

  4. Google Cloud customers report up to 50% cost reduction with cloud migration (general) [12]

  5. Microsoft case studies report 20–40% improvement in performance (general) [13]

  6. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud: 47% of organizations report improving cloud security [1]

  7. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud: 48% report reduced cloud spend due to optimization (numeric) [1]

  8. Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud reported that cloud optimization is being applied to non-production workloads (not numeric) [1]

  9. FinOps Foundation report states that average cloud waste is 30% [14]

  10. FinOps Foundation State of FinOps 2024 reported average savings from optimization were 20% (numeric) [15]

  11. FinOps Foundation State of FinOps 2024 reported that 50% of organizations have established FinOps practices [15]

  12. Gartner reported that by 2025, 80% of infrastructure and operations leaders will use automation and AI to reduce costs (numeric) [16]

  13. Gartner predicted that by 2026, organizations that adopt standardized cloud platforms will reduce application deployment time by 50% (numeric) [16]

  14. McKinsey estimated that cloud can reduce IT costs by 15–30% (range) [2]

  15. RightScale (Flexera) 2018 State of the Cloud reported 32% cost savings [17]

  16. Gartner: by 2025, cloud will be the default for new enterprise workloads (numeric timeframe) [18]

  17. Gartner forecast: by 2025, 80% of all non-production IT workloads will be cloud-based (numeric) [18]

  18. Gartner forecast: by 2024, 75% of organizations will have implemented at least one cloud-native service (numeric) [16]

  19. AWS Well-Architected Framework emphasizes reducing costs; no numeric [19]

  20. Google Cloud architecture framework provides recommendations for cost efficiency; no numeric [20]

  21. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework includes guidance to optimize costs (no numeric) [21]

  22. FinOps Foundation reports waste reduction can yield 10–40% savings (range) [22]

  23. FinOps Foundation report shows benefits such as 10–15% savings from rightsizing (general) [23]

  24. VMware Tanzu study shows time-to-market improvements of 2x for modern apps (general) [24]

  25. Red Hat cloud adoption survey found 60% organizations improved developer productivity by 20% (general) [25]

  26. Deloitte survey found automation via cloud reduces operational costs by 10–20% (range) [26]

  27. IDC forecast: cloud spending increases drive operational efficiency (no captured number) [27]

  28. Uptime Institute survey: cloud outages average 4 hours (numeric) [28]

  29. DORA 2023 report found elite performers deploy 208 times per day (CI/CD) [29]

  30. DORA 2023 report found elite performers have lead time for changes of 1 hour or less [30]

  31. DORA 2023 report found elite performers recover from failures in under 1 hour [31]

  32. DORA 2023 report found elite performers have change failure rate of less than 0.1% [32]

  33. McKinsey “The economic potential of generative AI” estimates productivity gains of 20–45% in affected functions (general) [33]

  34. AWS study estimates GenAI could reduce costs of customer support by up to 30% (general) [34]

  35. Microsoft research estimates GenAI could reduce labor hours by 20–30% in knowledge work (general) [35]

Section 04

Security & compliance

  1. Cloud Security Alliance reported that top cloud risks include misconfiguration (31%), insecure interfaces (17%), and account hijacking (15%) [36]

  2. Cloud Security Alliance CSA CCM v8 lists “Misconfiguration” as a key risk area with 31% coverage [36]

  3. European Union NIS2 Directive classifies “cloud computing” providers as essential and important entities depending on criteria [37]

  4. GDPR Article 32 requires appropriate technical and organizational measures for processing [38]

  5. ISO/IEC 27017 is the cloud security standard; it specifies controls and guidance for information security in cloud services (not a percentage) [39]

  6. ISO/IEC 27018 is the privacy standard for public cloud; it provides protections for PII [40]

  7. PCI DSS requires encryption of transmission of cardholder data over open, public networks (Requirement 4.1) [41]

  8. SOC 2 Type II report acceptance indicates controls operate effectively over a period of time (not a single numeric) [42]

  9. US HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities to conduct a risk analysis (45 CFR 164.308(a)(1)) [43]

  10. The US SEC requires cybersecurity disclosure for material incidents (Rule 8-K Item 1.05 and Regulation S-K) [44]

  11. OWASP Top 10: 2021 lists “misconfiguration” as a risk category [45]

  12. OWASP Top 10:2021 includes “Insecure Design” (A04) [46]

  13. OWASP Top 10:2021 includes “Security Logging and Monitoring Failures” (A09) [47]

  14. Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2024 found 68% of breaches involved human element [48]

  15. Verizon DBIR 2024 reported 74% of breaches involved some form of error (not a perfect match) [48]

  16. Verizon DBIR 2024 reported that 19% of breaches involved malware [48]

  17. ENISA cloud security guidance identifies shared responsibility model as core concept [49]

  18. ISO 22301 defines business continuity management systems (BCMS) requirements (not textile-specific) [50]

  19. NIST SP 800-53 Rev.5 provides security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations (not numeric) [51]

  20. NIST CSF 2.0 includes 5 functions: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover [52]

  21. CIS Controls v8 includes 18 controls (not numeric) [53]

  22. EU Cybersecurity Act applies certification schemes for ICT products/services including cloud [54]

  23. CISA notes that MFA reduces risk of account compromise; (not numeric in link) [55]

  24. NIST SP 800-63B requires AAL2/AAL3 appropriate authentication for high assurance [56]

  25. US FTC Safeguards Rule requires written information security program (not numeric) [57]

  26. NIS2 requires risk management measures for network and information systems including supply chain (not numeric) [37]

  27. EU AI Act (risk management obligations) is relevant for AI in cloud services (not numeric) [58]

  28. 2023 EU “Green Deal” impacts reporting including sustainability data in supply chains (not numeric) [59]

  29. ISO 27001 (ISMS) certification standard is widely used; no numeric [60]

  30. ISO 50001 energy management standard supports continual improvement; no numeric [61]

  31. EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) requires annual cap and reporting; not numeric here [62]

  32. EU Battery Regulation requires digital product passport for batteries; numeric not here [63]

  33. SEC climate-related disclosures rules require Scope 1 and 2 for large registrants (not textile-specific numeric) [64]

Section 05

Textile industry digitization

  1. Textile Exchange 2023 Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report found 99% of survey respondents use digital tools to track preferred fiber and materials (dataset-based) [65]

  2. Textile Exchange 2023 Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report reports preferred fiber share by fiber type (numeric not captured here) [65]

  3. Fashion Transparency Index 2023 assessed 250 fashion brands and retailers [66]

  4. Fashion Transparency Index 2024 examined 250 companies [66]

  5. Textile Exchange 2024 stated that preferred fiber includes organic cotton, certified wool, and more (not numeric) [67]

  6. McKinsey Fashion & Apparel reported that digital technologies can reduce inventory by 10–20% (industry general) [68]

  7. McKinsey Fashion & Apparel reported that sales uplift can be 5–15% from personalization (industry general) [69]

  8. Deloitte “Fashion and Technology” reported that RFID can reduce stock variance by 90% (retail inventory general) [70]

  9. IBM and Textile industry use cases show 30–50% reduction in energy use via analytics (general) [71]

  10. UN Comtrade textile and clothing exports by value are tracked internationally (not cloud-specific) [72]

  11. World Bank Logistics Performance Index 2023 (LPI) is 2.79 global avg (numeric) [73]

  12. World Bank LPI for low-income countries is 2.42 (numeric) [73]

  13. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 50% of supply chain organizations will use “digital supply chain twin” (not textile-specific) [74]

  14. Gartner predicts that by 2026, supply chain organizations will use AI to optimize planning and logistics (not textile-specific) [75]

  15. GS1 reported that 2D barcodes improve traceability with scan rates (not textile-specific) [76]

  16. RFID in apparel can improve inventory accuracy by 30% (general) [77]

  17. Textile & fashion brands adoption of cloud ERP: 61% (general survey) [78]

  18. Statista reported global apparel ecommerce sales expected to reach $1T by 2027 (general) [79]

  19. McKinsey global digital in retail forecast: 25–35% of fashion purchases online by 2025 (general) [80]

  20. Accenture reported that 91% of executives see traceability as essential (general) [81]

  21. Accenture report indicated 73% of consumers expect full transparency (general) [81]

  22. UNCTAD e-commerce report: global e-commerce share continues to rise (not numeric captured) [82]

  23. World Economic Forum reported that 70% of supply chain executives are using cloud-based analytics (general) [83]

  24. Cloud-based PLM adoption in manufacturing: 80% use it (general) [16]

  25. Microsoft Sustainability dashboard can track emissions by supplier (not numeric) [84]

  26. AWS sustainability data services (not numeric) [85]

  27. Google Cloud sustainability services (not numeric) [86]

  28. “Fashion for Good” states that digital product passports improve traceability (not numeric) [87]

  29. EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will require digital product passports for certain product categories (not numeric) [88]

  30. EU CSRD requires reporting by large companies on sustainability from FY2024 (not textile-specific numeric) [89]

  31. European Commission disclosure rules require sustainability reporting with assurance (not numeric) [90]

  32. UNECE Traceability initiatives for sustainable fashion (not numeric) [91]

  33. Reduction in lead time can be 30% with digital workflow automation (general) [92]

  34. Predictive maintenance can reduce maintenance costs by 25% (general) [93]

  35. McKinsey reports predictive maintenance can reduce downtime by 30% [94]

  36. Capgemini reported that 64% of consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable brands (general) [95]

  37. Capgemini reported that 43% of consumers would switch brands to reduce environmental impact (general) [95]

  38. Deloitte survey found 76% of manufacturers plan to use cloud/IIoT (general) [96]

  39. IBM survey found 57% of manufacturers are increasing data-driven investments (general) [97]

  40. AWS case study: using machine learning for quality inspection can reduce defects by 20% (general) [11]

  41. Microsoft case studies for apparel supply chain: reduces order-to-cash cycle time (no number captured) [13]

  42. SAP case study for fashion retail using cloud analytics: improved forecasting accuracy by 10–20% (general) [98]

  43. Google Cloud case study shows reduced processing time by 50% (general) [12]

  44. Accenture cloud can reduce IT costs by 20% (general) [99]

  45. AWS public cloud services statistics show infrastructure service usage growth year over year 2023 (not textile-specific) [100]

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