“Federal agencies collectively spent $6.6 billion on cloud computing in fiscal 2020, up from $6.1 billion in fiscal 2019, according to a government spending analysis by Bloomberg Government.
The analysis indicates agency spending on cloud services slowed slightly compared to other years in the decade-long uptick but suggests several potential reasons for slowed growth…”
“Civilian agencies accounted for $4.5 billion of the $6.6 billion the federal government spent on cloud infrastructure, platforms and software in fiscal 2020, 7.2% above the $4.2 billion civilian agencies spent the prior year. Meanwhile, defense agencies accounted for $2.1 billion in fiscal 2020.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lead all civilian agencies in cloud spending, each spending about $2.7 billion since fiscal 2016…”
“In terms of what federal agencies are buying, infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service have made up about half of all cloud computing obligations since fiscal 2013, according to Bloomberg. However, spending on software-as-a-service and additional cloud support services ‘rose sharply,’ the analysis found, a signal of increasing maturity among government cloud customers…” Read the full article here.
Source: Federal Cloud Spending Tops $6.6 Billion – By Frank Konkel, February 4, 2021. Nextgov.
