Cloud Computing in Aerospace, Defense and Security: Strategic Intelligence

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Published: September 19, 2025 Report Code: GDDEF-TR-S127-TH

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Cloud computing is becoming a foundational capability across the aerospace, defense, and security (ADS) sector as organizations confront growing data volumes, rising operational complexity, and intensifying geopolitical risk. In an environment where speed, interoperability, and situational awareness are critical, legacy IT architectures are increasingly seen as a competitive liability.

GlobalData’s Cloud Computing in ADS report examines how cloud technologies are reshaping the way defense organizations and suppliers consume IT resources, manage data, and deploy advanced digital capabilities. From maintenance and repair operations to ESG monitoring and mission-critical analytics, cloud adoption is enabling more flexible, scalable, and responsive operating models across the sector.

As cloud underpins adjacent technologies such as AI, machine learning, IoT, and edge computing, it is becoming central to how the ADS industry copes with the growing data deluge. However, security concerns, legacy systems, and persistent data siloes continue to slow adoption, making cloud strategy a defining factor in future competitiveness and operational effectiveness.

Scope

This report details the key technologies comprising GlobalData’s cloud computing framework and their impact on the aerospace, defense, and security sectors, including:

Analysis of the physical, connectivity, services, application, and data layers within GlobalData’s cloud and IoT framework

Assessment of how cloud computing supports digital transformation across ADS operations

Evaluation of cloud’s role in enabling data-driven decision-making and interoperability

Coverage of cloud’s interaction with emerging technologies across defense and security environments

How industry leaders are using this report

ADS executives, technology leaders, and strategy teams use this report to:

Understand how cloud computing is reshaping IT consumption and data management across the sector.

Assess the implications of cloud adoption for security, interoperability, and operational speed.

Evaluate how cloud enables adjacent technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous systems.

Support digital transformation planning in response to geopolitical risk and data-driven warfare.

Benchmark cloud’s strategic importance within broader defense technology priorities.

Key Highlights

This report highlights the most important trends shaping cloud adoption in the aerospace, defense, and security sector, including:

The rapid expansion of the global cloud computing market, forecast to reach $1.8 trillion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 18.3% from 2024, underlining cloud’s role as a core digital infrastructure technology.

Widespread use of cloud across the ADS sector to support maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), ESG monitoring, security functions, and data accessibility.

Cloud’s growing importance in managing the data deluge generated by modern defense platforms, sensors, and connected systems, where rapid access to information delivers a tactical and strategic advantage.

Persistent challenges around security concerns, legacy IT systems, and fragmented data siloes, which continue to limit interoperability across business units, suppliers, and military domains.

Cloud’s role as a key enabler of adjacent technologies, providing scalable infrastructure for AI, machine learning, Big Data analytics, IoT, and edge computing.

Increasing convergence of cloud with advanced defense technologies, supporting improved situational awareness and flexible environments for prototyping AI-driven and autonomous systems.

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This report enables you to:

Identify the most important cloud-related themes impacting the ADS sector in 2025.

Understand the challenges and opportunities associated with cloud adoption in defense environments.

Assess how cloud investment fits within broader defense technology and digitalization spending.

Gain insight into how cloud underpins next-generation defense capabilities and data-centric operations.

Support strategic decision-making with forward-looking thematic analysis.

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Digital Transformation, IT, and Data Strategy Teams

Government and Defense Agencies

Strategy, Market Intelligence, and Research Teams

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UK Ministry of Defence
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