Wasabi

47% of organisations in Japan are using a mix of traditional on-premises and cloud storage.

A staggering 65% of Japan organisations say egress or other data access fees associated with moving their data out of public cloud have delayed IT or business initiatives. This is much higher than the APAC average of 50%.

50% of Asia Pacific organisations experience IT or business delays due to egress and data access fees.

63% of APAC organisations exceeded their cloud storage budget in 2024. This is slightly worse than the global average of 62%.

48% of ANZ businesses plan to implement object lock in the next year or beyond.

Almost one in six APAC organisations report negative business impacts from cold storage performance delays.

66% of organisations in Japan say they recover data from public cloud for backup and recovery purposes, at least monthly. This is lower than the APAC average of 80%

49% of end-user cloud storage spending in APAC goes to fees for storage and networking, rather than actual storage used.

100% of ANZ organisations surveyed say they access or retrieve archived data at least annually.

68% of ANZ organisations recover data from public cloud storage at least weekly for backup purposes.

Pricing remains the top driver of dissatisfaction among ANZ public cloud storage users.

Networking fees, data management fees, data access and retrieval requests, and egress fees are among the costliest for APAC respondents.

63% of businesses in Japan exceeding their cloud storage budget.

66% of ANZ respondents exceeded their planned cloud storage spending in the past year.

Over half (64%) of ANZ organisations report a weekly rate of access to archived data.

One in six (17%) ANZ businesses report negative operational impacts from cold storage performance or access delays.

Less than half (48%) of ANZ businesses currently use object lock.

Fees eat up nearly half (49%) of total public cloud storage bills for Japan enterprises.