Bitkom study: German companies heavily dependent on cloud services (heise.de)

• 86% of German companies use cloud services
• 46% expect business shutdown from prolonged cloud outage
• Only 8% have a second cloud provider for failover

"A Bitkom study reveals that 86% of German companies use cloud services. 46% believe a prolonged cloud outage would halt their business; 9% would stop immediately. On average, companies could work only three days without cloud. 28% experienced major outages in the past year. Only 8% use a second cloud provider for resilience."