2020 Cloud Niche
Distributed Cloud
What Gartner Predicted
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Public cloud services would be distributed to different physical locations while governance, operations, and evolution remain the responsibility of the public cloud provider.
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Prediction Accuracy
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AWS Outposts and Azure Arc exist but haven't been widely adopted. Most enterprises use standard multi-region cloud, not 'distributed cloud' with services at arbitrary physical locations. Adoption is more limited than the prediction implied.