The business investment and organizations in products of computing and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments increased by 16.3% year-on-year in the last quarter of 2022. Thus, in that period it reached 24.1 billion dollars, according to data from the IDC consultancy.
Spending on cloud infrastructure. In addition, it continues to be greater than the fact in infrastructure not destined for the cloud, although this also had a notable growth between last October and December. In the aforementioned quarter, it increased by 9.4% year-on-year, to 18.7 billion dollars.
In all of 2022, cloud infrastructure spending grew 19.4% to $87.7bn, while non-cloud infrastructure spending improved 13.6% to $66.7bn. The sector continues to benefit from elevated demand, rising prices, backordered orders and improved supply chain infrastructure.
Investment in shared cloud infrastructure reached $16.8 billion during the quarter, an improvement of 18.5% year-over-year. For all of 2022, spending on shared cloud infrastructure reached $61.5 billion, up 20.1% from the full year before.
As for the dedicated cloud infrastructure sector, it grew 11.5% between October and December, to 7.2 billion dollars, and 18% in all of 2022, to 26.2 billion dollars. Of the total dedicated cloud infrastructure, 45.5% was deployed on customer premises between October and December. The remaining 45.2% was deployed throughout the rest of the year.
For 2023, IDC forecasts regarding investment in cloud infrastructure foresee a 6.9% growth compared to 2022, which will reach 93.7 billion dollars. While this is notable growth, it falls short of the 19.4% growth in investment in 2022. In terms of non-cloud infrastructure investment, its investment is expected to improve by 10.3%, to the 59.800 million dollars.
Meanwhile, spending on shared cloud infrastructure will grow by 7.5% year-on-year to $66.1bn in 2023. And that allocated to dedicated cloud infrastructure will improve by 5m.4% throughout the year, to 27.6 billion dollars.
This growth forecast reflects the expectation that the market will face a not too favorable macroeconomic situation, as well as variable demand. Spending on the cloud, yes, will continue to be positive due to the drive for modernization and the growth in demand for digital consumer services, among other factors. On the other hand, non-cloud investment contracts in the enterprise will focus more on capital savings.
In the last quarter of 2022, service providers, which include those of cloud, digital services and communications; spent 24.1 billion dollars on computing and storage infrastructure, 16% more than in 2021. It is 56.3% of the total market. Suppliers such as companies and governments, not dedicated to services, increased their spending in this sector at a lower rate: 9.7% compared to the same period in 2021.
For all of 2022, service providers invested $87.9 billion in compute and storage, up 18% from 2021. Non-service providers invested 15.4% more, to $66.4 billion. From IDC they expect the investment of service providers to rise to 92.3 billion dollars in 2023, 5.1% more.
Cloud infrastructure spending increased in the last three months of 2022 in all regions except Central and Eastern Europe due to the war between Russia and Ukraine. In this region, this spending fell 54% year-on-year. In total, throughout the year it fell by 39.7%.
In the long term, IDC anticipates that the spending on cloud infrastructure has an annual growth rate compound 10.5% in the period between 2022 and 2027. For this last year, it is expected to reach 144.3 billion dollars, and to represent 67.6% of the total spending on computing and storage infrastructure. As for spending on dedicated cloud infrastructure, it will grow at an annual rate of increase of 9.3%, to $40.7 billion.
