The Cloud Isn’t Shrinking — It’s Just Getting More Expensive to Explain

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 13: For years, cloud spending grew the way tech executives like their charts: up and to the right, no questions asked. Infrastructure moved off-prem. CFOs were promised elasticity. CIOs were promised agility. Boards were promised transformation. Everyone nodded.

That phase is over.

Not because the cloud failed — but because it finally grew up.

Traditional cloud spending is slowing across global enterprises. Not collapsing, not reversing, just… stabilising. Growth rates are no longer theatrical….