Alternative clouds are having a moment. Nearly 75% of organizations are using two or more alternative cloud providers, according to a HostingAdvice.com survey of 500 IT leaders from May 2025. These alternative clouds refer to cloud providers outside the major hyperscalers, like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, or IBM Cloud. “You’re able to get enterprise-grade hosting from alternative cloud providers,” says Joe Warnimont, senior analyst at Hosti...
