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Stacked Up 2025

The IaC Maturity Report

This interactive infographic brings the report’s data to life, highlighting essential takeaways and practical steps for teams to elevate their IaC approach and accelerate their 2025 infrastructure goals. The highlights below offer a sneak peek into the report's findings — but for more in-depth, actionable insights to drive your IaC strategy forward, download the full report.

In this report
  • Analysis of StackGen's five agentic AI services delivering autonomous cloud operations
  • Customer outcomes: 95% automated provisioning and 10× platform engineering productivity
  • Four critical market ramifications reshaping infrastructure automation
  • EMA's perspective on the future of autonomous infrastructure
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Findings by Role

1

42%

of executives report significant IaC investment without the expected return.

2

57%

of executives cite consistency and the proliferation of tools as major issues.

1

46%

of developers view IaC as "a necessary evil that distracts from their core work."

2

More than half of developers dedicate more than

20%

of their time to IaC, with one in five developers spending over 30% of their time on these tasks.

1

75%

of infrastructure professionals are frustrated by others making changes to IaC.

2

67%

infrastructure stakeholders are more concerned with ownership, loss of knowledge, and the challenge of too many teams making untracked changes

Executive
Developer
Infrastructure Managers

Developer vs. Executive
Misalignments by the Numbers

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Union Executive

Still developing IaC expertise

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Most infrastructure and development professionals consider their personal IaC expertise to be "a work in progress."

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High IaC self-assurance

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Executive-level respondents are significantly more confident (44% responded "very knowledgeable") in their personal knowledge of IaC.

Still developing IaC expertise

Most infrastructure and development professionals consider their personal IaC expertise to be "a work in progress."

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High IaC self-assurance

Executive-level respondents are significantly more confident (44% responded "very knowledgeable") in their personal knowledge of IaC.

Respondents acknowledge a lack of IaC maturity despite recognizing its benefits.

There is a clear need for improvement and innovation, with 65% of current IaC adopters across executives, managers, and individual contributors expressing optimism about adopting new technologies to enhance infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.

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Next Steps

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading IT research and consulting firm dedicated to
delivering actionable insights across the evolving technology landscape. EMA's research reveals
the urgent demand for autonomous infrastructure solutions.
For the complete analysis of how StackGen is meeting this demand.